Quotes About Diversity

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.

I listen to either romantic classical music, Brahms or Beethoven or something like Mozart, or I go all the way contemporary and listen to Metallica or Adele, Radiohead, jazz, whatever it is that is completely opposite.

I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.

When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.

Rag 'N' Bone Man is for everybody, like Wu Tang is for the children.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

I've grown up with jazz - the Joe Hendersons, Oliver Nelsons, Miles Davis and stuff - but I was also listening to, like, Slipknot, Korn, and Rage Against the Machine. There was all of that weaved - interweaved - in there, and being from L.A., you tend to know your musical history.

The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.

The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.

When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.

They were both academics, but my dad had to get a job on the railway, and my mum had to get a job in the Post Office. It was pretty hard in terms of the racism they had to endure.

For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance.

My name is Rain Dove, and my pronouns are just a sound. You can use whatever you want.

I don't pretend that 'Heavy Rain' will be a revolution, and I don't know if people will love it or hate it. All I can say is that it is definitely going to be different.

What the rainbow has given our people is a thing that connects us.

I love going to cities around the world and seeing the rainbow flag, knowing that it's a safe place where I can be myself.

Let's start the rainbow rage.

Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.

Flags say something. You put a rainbow flag on your windshield, and you're saying something.

I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

The U.S. is a rainbow of people with an endless scope of stories. My hope is that writing stories about people of color will become instinctual rather than something to be pushed for.