Quotes About Diversity

I've learned that it's often the less obvious, yet pervasive and questionable, everyday behaviors of men in our industry that collectively make it inhospitable for women.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

In my early 20s, I set out to kind of find myself. At that time, if you were different or if you ever questioned your gender identity or sexual orientation, society kind of put you in the gay club.

Let's let our men be happy, be sad, be trans, be questioning, be bisexual, be non-conforming, be feminine, be masculine!

When people try questioning my artistry or what it is that I do, it's because it doesn't look like everybody else's art.

As an actor, it was important to me to play gay characters because, growing up, it was something I never really saw done on television and in film, and I was questioning why there weren't more people like me.

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.

As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.

I've thought about adopting, but I'm a bit paranoid that because I'm gay and disabled I'd be put straight off the list. My mother thinks that I would jump the queue because they like minorities adopting. I have great genes, though, and I would like to pass them on.

It's pretty hard to stand in the queue auditioning to play a gynaecologist on 'Holby City' when you've just played Mandela. You think, 'Actually, I want to challenge myself.'

People are very quick to go, 'What is this nonsense?' if they've not seen something before and it's a bit different.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.

I like to just hear people talking and TV is a quick way to hear different periods and genres. It's just interesting to me. I'm pretty easily amused with that kind of stuff.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.

Bottom line - American history tells us that where there is a will, there will always be a way to achieve quick and fast inclusion.

All the people that are so quick to say that, like, because I wear womenswear sometimes, that means I'm transitioning. People are just so ignorant and dumb sometimes.

I speak five languages, which actually makes it easier when you join a new team. You can settle much quicker because you can help team-mates much faster and better. People need to be careful around me, though - I can understand everything.

Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a song, and it will open up a new area of music for me. I discovered an Argentinian guitarist, Jose Luis Bieito, on Classic FM.

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.

A lot of people told me I should be quiet about being bisexual and not say anything, but for me this is a part of my identity.