Quotes About Diversity

She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies.

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.

How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.

The thing is, you can't always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.

We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

Can she be divorced? I asked. And famous for her commercials and ideas? She can be anything, Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. And so can you.

How weird that must be, to stay the same as everyone else changes.

It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling

Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

There's no right or wrong in music, you know? Just everything in between.

I always thought I was different.

People are not uniform Emaline. There is no such thing as any other girl. So stop holding yourself to some ridiculous high standard, would you please?

I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as she tried to make me see that between my mother'sPTA and Boo's strange ways there was a middle ground that began here with my Barbie, Sab-rina,and led right to me. She can be anything, Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. And so can you.

People are not uniform, Emaline. There is no such thing as any other girl.

The thing is, you can't always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns. Otherwise, how could I have all these things and still be so close to my own Best After Ever?

We were not always freaks. Sure, most of us occasionally exhibited freakish behaviour. But that's not the same thing.

We were not always freaks. Sure, most of us occasionally exhibited freakish behavior. But that's not the same thing. This is the story of how we became freaks. It's how a group of Is became a we.

Maybe we could call me a … Fluid!" "Ooooh, that's way better than Fishie

Hearing-impaired people can totally play instruments," said Marigold.

Then they went on to discuss other things because there is always something more to a person than what somebody else does to them.