Quotes About Diversity

Why are we only talking about gender discrimination. We need to focus on the other kinds of discriminations in practice.

I've crossed many cultural and gender barriers as a woman.

I have disregarded gender when deciding which part to audition for.

When I'm a gender capitalist in the fashion world, I basically can go to any casting that I want to as long as somebody likes my face.

The beautiful thing about stand-up advice is that it applies to anybody, any gender, any race, any age. The best thing you can do - everybody will tell you - is get on stage as much as you can. I would add to that: get on stage as much as you can - with the people you admire.

Equality for all is what we should all want, between race, religion, gender, sexuality... it doesn't matter.

I've never played on my gender.

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

I'm always asked about how women get on in the boardroom and my answer is always, 'Never acknowledge that you are a woman. Your gender is not the point.'

I want racial and gender equality.

You have to be respectful. Don't ask for respect if you are not respectful. It's not depending on your sexuality, your gender or the colour of your skin. It should be in the focus to live a respectful life.

While dressing up as Courtney is a performance, there is a part of me that is expressing my gender in feminine and masculine ways.

We should not be assuming anything for anyone else's gender, because gender is defined by the individual.

I think the biggest thing I can say to that is every female is different. Not that every man isn't, but speaking on behalf on my gender, I think women can watch sports exactly like men, and others watch it exactly the opposite way.

For us, gender didn't come up. We were friends who happened to play together. We never said, 'Gee, we're an all-girl band!'

You can be any gender you choose on any given day.

We'll always be re-examining how we relate to each other in terms of race and gender, in terms of power and access.

There are many people who probably don't agree with my acting, and it should be that way: they don't have to agree with me in general. I'm not here to be loved by everybody. I want to be. But I don't think it's humanly possible to be unanimously loved. But I think I've voiced it clearly that I'm not here to be a baby doll.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

People generalize music by how you look, and I don't like that.

I don't love to generalize, because I think every person has bad and good in them.

I think it's very difficult to generalize as to why, in a particular league or a particular industry, somebody has or has not come out. We certainly don't want a player to come out for our sake. It should be what's right for him and something that he has to be comfortable with.