Quotes About Diversity

Yes, I think I have some good knowledge of India. I have lots of Indian friends in the chess fraternity.

Separate but equal is a fraud.

I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.

My parents were very, very good about not separating us as kids from their adult friends. So on any given night, we'd have, like, this kind of freak show - artists and art dealers coming over. And these are the people I feel like I learned from.

Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.

At some private events, we'll see the CEO of the company get up and do his 'Rock Lobster' dance. The band used to grumble that, 'All they talk about is hair and don't take us seriously,' but I've realized that what this band does the best is let loose and let people's freak flag fly.

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

How do I let go of Maplewood? It's like Shangri-la. It's so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted - a transracial family. And we're not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood!

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.

I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic.

This is a free country, and to each their own.

I consider myself a free man and a citizen of the world.

Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.

The thing about 'On the Doll,' I was doing 'Nip/Tuck' at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I've ever done before.

We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

We do have a black president, and that means a lot. People ask, 'What has he done?' What he's done is change the color up, which you see on the screen. When the head of the free world is black, there's got to be some sort of spin-off from it.

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.

While people can differ on the issues, no one should seek to discourage freedom of speech.

I see the wielding of a pronoun as something that can be freeing for some members of society but a shackle to others like myself.

Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen.

I'm so proud that now you can exist as a gay man and be an Olympian, and it can be beneficial rather than negative. So it's amazing. And I just think I feel so liberated now that I've been out of the closet for a while, and so I'm free in that I just get to be myself, speak freely, act freely, and I think that I am competing confidently.

Everybody has their own opinion and it's, how you say, a free country. Everybody can speak freely.