Quotes About Diversity

To know a little about a lot.

A person can function normally in a million and one ways and hold the most irrational beliefs imaginable, as long as the irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

However much we champion freedom of thought, we actually spend much of our time censoring input. We seek out publications that mirror or support our prior views and largely avoid those that don't.

Yau proposed another round, then asked: 'Is it true that to the west of the Khalif's domain there live white-skinned people, with blue eyes and yellow hair?' 'There can't be men like that!' Chiao Tai protested. 'Must be ghosts or devils!'(49)

What a waste of time it would be to insist that everyone develop each of the specialties we call upon to an equal level. We'd get bogged down in remedial training programs, trying to get the cornet players up to speed with the computer programmers, sacrificing the tends to be exceptional in so many individual situations in order to be average in all of them.

Es síntoma de una inteligencia universal poder regalarse con con distintas bellezas.

A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.

As you're well aware, this is a macho country full of faggots. The history of Mexico wouldn't make sense otherwise.

Charly Cruz asked him if he liked Spike Lee. Yes, said Fate, although he didn't really. "He seems Mexican," said Charly Cruz. "Maybe," said Fate. "That's an interesting way to look at it." "And what about Woody Allen?" "I like him," said Fate. "He seems Mexican too...

Uno tiene que conocer gente de todas las clases, a veces es necesario empaparse de realidad

Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other places, by logical extension, I'm nobody?

Canetti e creio que também Borges, dois homens tão diferentes, disseram que assim como o mar era o símbolo ou o espelho dos ingleses, o bosque era a metáfora onde viviam os alemães.

Every hundred feet the world changes, said Florita Almada. The idea that some places are the same as others is a lie. The world is a kind of tremor.

La novelas, generalmente, eran heterosexuales, la poesía, en cambio, era absolutamente homosexual, los cuentos, deduzco, eran bisexuales, aunque esto no lo dijo.

la poesía mexicana carecía de poetas maricones, aunque algún optimista pudiera pensar que allí estaba López Velarde o Efraín Huerta.

En el querer los mexicanos somos todos iguales. Ante Dios, también —dijo el taxista.

Cada cosa de este país es un homenaje a todas las cosas del mundo, incluso a las que aún no han sucedido —dijo." Excerpt From: Roberto Bolaño. "2666." iBooks.

The truly haunting Other is not what lies outside the text but what lies outside the picturesque garden of the Western world.

Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.

and again, they were opposite of each other in every way, and each way was wonderful.

Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die.

Girls think strangely

change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die.