Quotes About Diversity

There is a black folk music audience. They're just very small.

I have not seen 'The Lion King.' I don't do black folklore. And I'm black.

Personally, I cain't stand classical stuff, but I don't tell the world about it. I just turn the radio off. Now, why cain't these folks who don't like my kind of music do the same?

I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.

It's nice to see how much the mainstream fashion community has been so accepting of it. It's very exciting to see that folks finally want to make plus-size mainstream.

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

As an artist, it's incredible to see folks see you and then be able to give that back and to be able to send two girls to a Black Girls Empowerment camp.

Folks, it's okay to find flamboyant homosexuality funny.

We're bringing together the country folks and the rockers.

Just as you can't blindly follow fashion, you can't follow fitness, either.

Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.

I'm a follower of people not necessarily connected with the theater.

I think, at some point, we have to be followers of Christ - not followers of White Christ, or any other color Christ, for that matter.

Our team, in general, is in a position where people look up to us, and kids look up to us. I embrace that, and I think I have a huge LGBT following. I think it's pretty cool, the opportunity that I have, especially in sports. There's really not that many out athletes. It's important to be out and to live my life that way.

To say, 'Well, he's following X person, so he believes all the things that this person believes'... I think that's ridiculous.

My taste is developing constantly, and it goes in whatever direction it wants to go in - the music follows.

Once a story is set to a particular city, language and culture, the rest just follows.

Food is a common denominator for all people.

We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god.

I'll eat anything, even foods I've always shunned, when a friend cooks it.

I love experiencing new cultures and new foods.

I like to experience all different kinds of foods.

Anyone who ghettoizes any form of media is a fool.

I'm five foot three. I don't look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I'm 12.