Quotes About Diversity

White and black: with these two categories the diversity of a thousand ethnicities is lost.

Skin color or the shape of one's nose cannot be the criteria upon which individuals are judged. Black is not beautiful; it's racist. Being African-American, conscious of your culture, fascinated by your history, this is beautiful—and really has nothing to do with putting a color chart next to your face.

Labels are for cans, not people.

hospitality, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance.

This may bear witness to the bulldozing effect of Western dominance, which tends to destroy every indigenous aspect of the cultures with which it comes into contact, but it is not a good argument for the superiority of European music. American popular music has swept the world; but few musicians consider it better than the varieties of music which it has displaced.

My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

The kaleidoscope of colour which is my life, shows the interesting choices I've made along the way.

Les miroirs sont nos auberges espagnoles.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You--you alone have the stars as no one else has them

One of those pretty boys we put up front to avoid being accused of only putting pretty girls up there.

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

No culture should be romanticized or denigrated: like all others, Indians should be understood and evaluated on their own terms

the deep division that exists in the human race, regardless of any other more obvious distinction, between those for whom books are an obsession, and those who are prepared, good-humouredly enough, to tolerate their existence.

The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.

For example, post can refer to a piece of timber set upright, a position of employment, or mail.

I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.

I've done many different movies in many different contexts.

But don't hunt for dissonance: There is no such thing; People dance to all tunes.

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.