Quotes About Diversity

A fellow can't live on books

Just because my dreams are different than yours, doesn't mean they're unimportant.

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

They moved in dance steps too intricate for the noninitiated eye to imitate or understand. Clearly they were of one soul. Handsome, rangy, wildly various, they were bound in total loyalty, not by oath, but by the simple, unquestioning belongingness of part of one organism.

Short Perfect Novels Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabel Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson Sula, by Toni Morrison The Shadow-Line, by Joseph Conrad The All of It, by Jeannette Haine Winter in the Blood, by James Welch Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald First Love, by Ivan Turgenev Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf Waiting for the Barbarians, by J. M. Coetzee Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai

White people covered the earth like lice.

Books for Banned Love Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje Euphoria, by Lily King The Red and the Black, by Stendahl Luster, by Raven Leilani Asymmetry, by Lisa Halliday All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides The Vixen, by Francine Prose Legends of the Fall, by Jim Harrison The Winter Soldier, by Daniel Mason

He favored vocational training for blacks, not intellectual equality with whites.

He felt at home in many places.

Since Rockefeller believed in meritocracy, not aristocracy, he favored educational opportunities for minorities.

The colored race is not ready it seems to me for high culture.

He will willingly fill the more menial positions, and do the heavy work, at less wages, than the American white man

It is interesting to note in this context that Standard Oil of Ohio did not hire its first permanent black employee until 1906.

most of the sort restricted to Anglo-Saxon Christian men

Mr. Rossini had about twelve different kinds of sublime and about 150 kinds of ridiculous.

are desperate for people of every background with the ability to formulate a compelling vision of the future and to inspire others to help make that vision a

Lincoln's genius was his ability to draw upon the talents of others, meld together diverse personalities who often did not trust one another, and then listen to their advice, recognizing that it was sometimes wiser than his own.

It is true that I opposed quotas in employment, education, and other areas. I consider quotas, whether they favor blacks or whites, men or women, to be a new form of discrimination as bad as the old ones.

Una de las cosas buenas que fui descubriendo con los años es que ser raro no es nada raro, contra lo que la palabra parece indicar. De hecho, lo verdaderamente raro es ser normal.

Happiness is the same for everyone, but unhappiness is different for each person.

Las chicas de hoy tienen una Lady Gaga, que se viste de hombre, de mujer o de filete de ternera, según le viene en gana.

La normalidad es un marco convencional que homogeneiza a los humanos, como ovejas encerradas en un aprisco;

Y pensé: si tú supieras la cantidad de vidas distintas que puede haber en una sola vida...

La normalidad es un marco convencional que homogeneiza a los humanos, como ovejas encerradas en un aprisco; pero, si miras desde lo suficientemente cerca, todos somos distintos.