Quotes About Diversity

If you're not funding female-founded firms, you're leaving behind half your talent.

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

Funk is part of who I am.

I love music - anything that catches my ears - but it's more about lots of rock 'n' roll and really funky electronic music.

I'm a big rock 'n' roll head, I love country music, I love yodeling music. But I'm still black and funky.

What I try to do is always get the newest, funniest people in anything.

I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.

Feminists will not be satisfied until every abortion is performed by a gay black doctor under an endangered tree on a reservation for handicapped Indians.

even my different drummer heard a different drummer

Only two classes of books have universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

You and I are like two people . . .' He paused and began again more quickly: 'Do you know these soap advertisement signs that read differently from several angles? As you come up to them you read Monkey's Soap; if you look back when you've passed it's Needs no Rinsing. . . . You and I are standing at different angles and though we both look at the same thing we read different messages. Perhaps if we stood side by side we should see yet third. . . . But I hope we respect each other.

It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?

stories belong to everybody.

It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

You can't help being a doll, she said with a resigned sigh, any more than Lavinia and Jessie can help not having any sense. We are not all made alike. Perhaps you do your sawdust best. And she kissed her and shook her clothes straight, and put her back upon her chair.

I dare say it's because there's such a lot o' blacks there instead o' respectable white people. When I heard you was

Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love.

He said he couldn't understand a world 'shameless and cruel enough to divide its people by color when color is in fact the sign of God's artistic genius.

Weetzie could see him--it was a man, a little man in a turban, with a jewel in his nose, harem pants, and curly-toed slippers. Lanky Lizards! Weetzie exclaimed. Greetings, said the man in an odd voice, a rich, dark purr. Oh, shit! Weetzie said. I beg your pardon? Is that your wish?

The most beautiful people are the ones that don't look like one race or even one sex.

If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is their cousin. Her hair is dyed autumn or aubergine or Egyptian henna, depending on her mood. Her skin is pale as frost and she wears beautiful Jil Sander suits and Prada pumps on which she walks faster than a speeding taxi (when it is caught in rush hour, that is). Her lips are some unlikely shade of copper or violet, courtesy of her local MAC drag queen makeup consultant.

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jade worried. She was trying so hard to look just like everyone else!