Quotes About Diversity

I remember getting flowers and champagne for being one of the first black artists on MTV. That was a big deal.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

When I was 14, I came to school in London. I remember it was very cold, but also having to adjust and become fluent in English.

I am Chinese. I speak fluent Mandarin. And I go, 'Man, it's about time a Chinese person could step up to a Hollywood screen, and international screen, and help save the world.'

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

I speak fluent Kosovan.

I'm so Filipino. I'm fluent in Filipino.

I have grown up in Chennai, so I speak Tamil fluent.

I have a huge connect with South. My father can speak fluent Tamil. He studied in Bengaluru. My brother studied in Kodaikanal. I am familiar with the South.

Films with predominantly white casts can come in any form, tell any story, big or small. For black films, you have the light, fluffy rom-coms or 'Madea' movies, and then you have the black-torture awards movie.

Sexuality has become much more fluid, and you no longer have to be locked up into a convenient compartment.

'The Red Era' is for everybody. Every gay, every fluid, every black, every white.

Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.

Parts that are desexed, matronly - to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

Not everybody gets a chance to go fly around the country and spend time in places with people who aren't like them, where, again and again, you realize we're all generally alike.

It's nice to see different places and different parts of the world. It's pretty cool, though I hate flying!

One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.

Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.

I'm not somebody that just has one or two things in life that are laserlike focused.

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.

I would love to do something with Mohit Chauhan and other folk artists.

Black folk have been 'the other' in shows and movies and in life for quite a long time. Not from our perspective, we're not 'the other,' but from other people's perspective we have been 'the other.'

I love Punjabi Folk.

My dad's side of the family were calm folk from England, but the other side just loved to party. Somewhere between those two factions is me.