Quotes About Diversity

No one in the planet can ever tell anyone else what they should do. For example, I do not go around the world trying to say somebody needs to be democratic.

I love myself, I love my skin, and I love my history. I'm grateful for who I am, grateful for the people who made me, my ancestors, and I wouldn't change a thing.

When we simply write a place off as, like, 'Well, it's just Trump country,' for the people who are there, we do them a disservice on some level. It's their country, too.

I know that everybody is not going to be a Terrell Suggs fan, and that's fine. For the people that are, I'm going to be myself and they are going to love me and they are going to enjoy it.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.

I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to something bigger. What I really miss is being forced to be in a community with people that aren't the same as you. Then, you really have to work through the ways that you're different.

I want to be an Actress that is forced to change in order to play certain characters or tell stories. I don't want to just play a version of myself.

I think a lot of people, when the word leadership is used, they think of it as quite forceful and quite a rigid thing. I think people think I am like that. But people can lead in different ways.

It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

My forefathers were from Punjab and so were my parents before they shifted to Delhi. And let me make this very clear - I am not a South Indian.

I'm a black woman, so I'm obviously not going to write something where women aren't at the forefront.

Growing up as Chinese-American, as someone who experienced racism, questions of 'otherness' are always at the forefront of my mind.

Some people have their sexuality really at the forefront of who they are, and I applaud those people.

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.

I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

I grew up moving around. I went to seven different schools, so I know what it's like to be that new girl and have to not only know who you are but also take that into foreign circumstances and know how to respond.

The South is like a foreign country to me!