Quotes About Diversity

You don't see guys being compared with other guys, you base people on your roots in racing. You would think I'd get more compared with people who do dirt racing.

I've always thought of myself as more of a character actress. I've tried to do different things, but I've always been under the radar and that's how I like it. I've been really blessed to work this long and I just hope I continue to get better and better and better and better.

I'd love to do a film on homosexuality. That's on my radar.

I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are.

Carter G. Woodson

The big, radical thing that I'm trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings.

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is.

The most radical thing about our lives is getting to be in a visibly filled-out queer crowd every night.

Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women's rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.

I understand that a lot of people can't connect with my music, because it's a radical proposal and a personal proposal. There will be people who can connect with it, and many that can't.

It feels great that with the film choices I have been making have been quite radical and different. I am glad they are commercially working.

No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they're radically different.

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different.

I like to keep the big dynamic changes between my songs, so that album songs feel radically different from each other.

I'm not saying that what the radio plays isn't good. My issue is with what they don't play. You can play Jay-Z, but why don't you play Jurassic 5? You can play Nas and Nelly, but why don't you play J-Live? I want to open up the door to how it was back in the day.

Ever since the Dixie Chicks, the female perspective on country radio has been love songs. I love love songs, but we do have more to talk about, so it's nice that other perspectives are coming back.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio.

Everything ain't just about the radio.

I think a lot of people who become music fans have that moment where they break from their parents' music, they break from the radio and MTV - at least in my generation, they did, and MTV isn't really a thing anymore. And you discover something that defines you, that is outside of the mainstream.