Quotes About Diversity

Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.

I am a big fan of seeing more women in public life.

We are going to mint new astronauts from all communities. We want to influence public policy and opinion... by changing the mindset.

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

In Bronxville, New York, we went to public school there, before London. Mother had a great belief in public school. She said it was very good for us to meet all the neighborhood kids.

I went to public school my entire life.

I started high school in L.A., but I went to public school in New York.

I grew up in a rough area, went to an all-black school, public school.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

I grew up on the Eastern Shore during desegregation. A lot of white parents chose to send their kids to private schools rather than integrate - but not mine. My brother and I both attended and graduated from public schools. It's one of the best things that happened to me.

You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.

As I graduated from public schools and started working in newsrooms, I told myself that I am only the 'illegal' that my own country has not bothered to get to know.

I can be happy in the private sector, the non-profit sector, or the public sector.

Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.

In public service, not everybody's always going to agree.

I hope that folks that look like me, regardless candidly of their political affiliation, not only look at me and say that, you know, I want to vote for him at the ballot box, but also make the decision that perhaps they want to put their name up for public service and for public office.

Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.

One of the very first fashion features where I appeared without my prosthetic legs was in ELLE magazine's publication, 'Gold Rush.'

I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.

My publicist actually told me about the book. She's half-Indian, half-Dutch, and she was like, 'You've got to do this book. It's called 'Crazy Rich Asians.''

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.