Quotes About Diversity

Sugar, she say one day when Shug home, don't you think it be nice if Celie could talk proper? Shug say, She can talk in sign language for all I care.

the only way to stop making somebody the serpent is for everybody to accept everybody else as a child of God

An American, I said, sighing, but understanding my love of my adopted country perhaps for the first time: an American looks like a wounded person whose wound is hidden from others, and sometimes from herself. An American looks like me.

The many identities you hold and your lived experiences are not in conflict with each other; they make you sharp, whole, and extraordinary.

We are a symphony with one instrument playing all the parts. To make the symphony as dynamic as can be instruments must be given to other players.

I didn't know there were women who wore men's clothes and had men's haircuts. But like a traveler in a foreign country who runs into someone from home - someone they've never spoken to but know by sight - I recognized her with a surge of joy.

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

I only go to a movie if it satisfies three basic requirements. One, it has to have at least two women in it; two, two women talking to each other, and three, talking about something besides a man

In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

B?rbaÅ£ii ÅŸi femeile sînt diferiÅ£i. Nu sînt mai buni sau mai r?i — ci diferiÅ£i. Singurul lucru pe care îl au în comun este faptul c? aparÅ£in aceleiaÅŸi specii. Ei tr?iesc în lumi diferite, cu valori diferite ÅŸi conform unor reguli diferite. Toat? lumea ÅŸtie asta, dar foarte puÅ£ini oameni, ÅŸi mai ales foarte puÅ£ini b?rbaÅ£i, sînt dispuÅŸi s-o recunoasc?. Acesta e totuÅŸi adev?rul.

We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.

Nature abhors homogeneity and simply adores eccentric diversity.

Am I a Stalinist? A Capitalist? A Bourgeois Stinker? A rotten Red? No I'm a fairy with purple wings and white halo translucent as an onion ring in the transsexual fluorescent light of Kiev Restaurant after a hard day's work

America, I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

There was no proof that everyone perceived it in the same way; maybe Zulema, Riad Halabí, and others had a different impression of things; maybe they did not see the same colors or hear the same sounds I did. If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation.

You are too young to understand, solange, but there are many different types of love in this world. There are lovers of the flesh, lovers of the mind, and lovers sustained by family.:

Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.

Ashoka supplemented this general moral and political principle by a dialectical argument based on enlightened self-interest: 'For he who does reverence to his own sect while disparaging the sects of others wholly from attachment to his own sect, in reality inflicts, by such conduct, the severest injury on his own sect.

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

Amazing how far we had come. A few days ago, I had been surprised to see Rei and Valene accepted as dancers in the nest; now anyone who wanted a part in this project was welcome. We had achieved half the goal of Wyvern's Court simply by dreaming of it.

People are alike in many ways. In other ways, people are different. These differences are called diversity. Without diversity, everyone would be exactly the same and that would make the world a very boring place. Accept each infant or child as someone special.