Quotes About Diversity

I myself know some people who are gay. We're on friendly terms. I'm not prejudiced in any way.

I would personally not run down any cinema just because I am not capable of making it. Anurag Kashyap makes a certain kind of cinema; I make a different kind. But when we meet, we are friendly.

When I go back to Essex, where I grew up, I'm still appalled by the homophobia and casual racism and aggression. I live in Lewisham, in south London, and though it might look a bit rough, it's a diverse, friendly neighbourhood.

I've been in the industry forever, since I was a kid. It's a very LGBTQ-plus friendly industry and all my friends are gay or gay-straight, or trans-nonbinary, everything.

Swansea is totally different. The people here are so friendly, different to London where everyone is in a rush.

Let me just make a stand that our friends and family in the LGBTQIA-plus community have the right to take up space in our society.

I think the truth about male friendship is often left out of the media, and it's that it has a million different shades, because masculinity has a million different forms.

I don't discriminate between a boy and girl when it comes to friendship.

There are many different shapes of friendships to be had.

That's what friendships are, isn't it? You don't all have to be the same, as long as you've all got the same sense of humor and same attitudes on life.

There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.

Diversity in books is a civil rights frontier.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

I think women, we are very interesting. We have a lot to say, and sometimes it's frustrating how all the lead parts are for men.

I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.

Obviously there aren't many opportunities for someone who looks like me to walk in fashion shows. It's incredibly frustrating.

I know when I was a kid I saw only one color of beauty, I saw only one kind in all the billboards and all magazines and the video clips. One kind and it was so frustrating.

Hope will be found by understanding that diversity is the essence of the American Dream and why we need each other to fulfill it.

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

I love being able to fulfill such a huge and special part of myself with Pentatonix. But there is still so much more to me that, honestly, people don't get to see because we're in a group.

Different hot sauces fulfill different needs, and I wouldn't want anyone to live in a world in which each fridge held only one bottle.