Quotes About Diversity

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.

I have absolutely no problem being thought of as an action chick because, quite frankly, very few women have ever done that.

It's taken me quite some time to convince people that I can do shades of grey, and I've finally broken that ground.

Truth: I loathe the idea of being hired because of my gender, and I shudder at the thought that one day I show up on set, and half of the crew thinks, 'Here comes the quota hire.'

To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

I'm a proud member of the rabble.

No matter what race or color you are, you can aspire to do something great.

We need to stop judging individuals based on their race, profession, gender, religion, or anything other than their own individual behavior and character.

Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted.

Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity.

I don't fit into the age, race, or class of a bestselling poet.

I'm mixed race, and it's often hard for me to fit into period pieces.

For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.

I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

I never though much about race.

Perhaps I'm just a 'RuPaul's Drag Race' superfan.

I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.