Quotes About Diversity

As breadwinners, providers, mentors, counselors, parents, grandmothers, teachers, doctors, nurses, and more, Black women and their invaluable contributions to Georgia and our country must be compensated.

The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The good news is that intersectionality provides us a way to see it.

To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.

I want to do a lot of different characters - definitely not always the same kind of character. I love that life provides so many choices, and I want to be able to experience that.

'Women on Board' provides a roadmap for high-performing women leaders to join high-performing boards. It is a must-read for every sitting board director, man or woman, and for everyone who aspires to a corporate board seat.

EXMNA is a nonprofit that provides support to individuals who have left Islam.

Everyone provides a different experience, and for me, personally, it's important that all perspectives are seen.

The sports world provides a great platform for racial discussions. It's also one of the few places in society where, 99 percent of the time, performance trumps race. Most times, but not always.

Girls Who Code is all about providing role models. You can't be what you can't see.

I am optimistic that many, when choosing where to buy their lunch, will settle on the sandwich chain which a map, or possibly an app, says has committed to providing disabled access in all its outlets.

Increasing the diversity of what we teach is critical to providing students with a better understanding of who we are as a society and where we are going.

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

It is very overwhelming to find that you are loved by people belonging to different provinces and cultures. They give me the energy.

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.

They see you as one thing, and you continue to do that. Do you want to play this really awkward, offbeat outsider? Yeah. I can - but I can do other things. It's having people trust that you can do other things, or proving it to them.

I was told MTV VJs have no career after MTV, and I'm like, that's never going to be me. I was always about not feeding into the negativity and proving to people that I can do more than one thing.

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

We are proving that Latinos have the power to connect with an audience on a global level without having to leave our identity behind.

A civilised society ought to make ample provision for everyone, no matter their background, to enjoy the arts and culture.

I use humour a lot because humour is a great equaliser. Everyone laughs at the same things if you set them up properly, and that makes everybody equal. At the end of the day, I see my job as being there to entertain as well as inform and provoke.

I want to do roles that provoke us to think differently or realise ourselves in a new light. Characters of women who have an interesting story to tell. I'd love to do a period film, an action film, a character study.

I want to do roles that allow me to push my boundaries and provoke us to think differently.