Quotes About Diversity

If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

We are not in a situation where the minorities are demanding something and the majorities are pushing back saying 'We don't want it.'

I'm pushing back against the white, misogynistic, heterosexual establishment in the music industry. Like, literally, in all its forms.

My favorite models are always going to be the people who are pushing the boundary and challenging what it is to be a model.

My one hope for Netflix and Amazon is to be a little more art house- and indie-friendly, pushing those just as hard as they push their originals.

No one could put my personality in a box. I didn't necessarily fit in.

Me, as a person, I grow. I'm like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.

What Jennifer Lopez puts out, it's not Latin music.

I was lucky to work with Gamechanger Films, who are a consortium of investors financing films directed by women. This is a company that puts their money where their mouth is.

Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.

Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

My husband is American but Italian. Then I have the Mexicano side. I see both in my kids. My daughter is more Italian - she leans towards pizza - and my son leans more towards guacamole and puts lime in everything.

I'm not foreign enough to play foreigners... I have sort of a mid-Atlantic British accent that puts me in the middle of everything, so they don't know quite where to put me.

Swavey, it puts more than one genre of music together. That's the approach I have with all music I do.

You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.

Sometimes America is so great because it brings all of us together, but sometimes it can be so limiting because it puts labels on things.

I don't think any other place puts out music with no promise of success and still works like Baltimore.

I certainly believe in a type of Rooney Rule - in legislation that doesn't give black and ethnic individuals a job but, at least, puts them in the frame.

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

I'm not trying to be a girl by putting on a dress - gender is separated by fabric.