Quotes About Diversity

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life.

Andrew Cuomo own story taught Andrew Cuomo that as Americans, we are bound together as one people, and our country's success rests on the success of all of us, not just a fortunate few.

Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.

Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don't sell a lot. But they're both great.

Dantes examined the various articles shown to him with the same attention that he had bestowed on the curiosities and strange tools exhibited in the shops at Marseilles as the works of the savages in the South Seas from whence they had been brought by the different trading vessels.

My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.

Balzampleu!" said the Swiss, who, despite the fine collection of oaths boasted by the German language, had taken to swearing in French.

Generalmente - diceva - si chiedono consigli solo per non seguirli; oppure, se si seguono, solo per avere qualcuno da rimproverare per averli dati». Porthos giunse un istante dopo d'Artagnan. I quattro amici si ritrovavano dunque riuniti. I quattro volti esprimevano quattro sentimenti diversi: quello di Porthos la tranquillità, quello di d'Artagnan la speranza, quello di Aramis l'inquietudine e quello di Athos l'indifferenza.

Je suis un de ces êtres exceptionnels, oui, monsieur, et je crois que, jusqu'à ce jour, aucun homme ne s'est trouvé dans une position semblable à la mienne. Les royaumes des rois sont limités, soit par des montagnes, soit par des rivières, soit par un changement de mÅ"urs, soit par une mutation de langage. Mon royaume, à moi, est grand comme le monde, car je ne suis ni Italien, ni Français, ni Indou, ni Américain, ni Espagnol: je suis cosmopolite.

The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.