Quotes About Diversity

There's no blueprint; getting married doesn't make you boring, having kids doesn't make you boring, having money doesn't necessarily have to make you boring.

I shocked my parents with a lot of things, whether it was becoming an actor or when I was dating someone outside the Egyptian community or when I moved away from home before getting married.

My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.

I grew up in the U.K. and now reside in the United States, and my family is from Ghana.

I'm from Ghana and I grew up in Hackney around a lot of aunties which exposed me to beauty and skin stuff.

I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

If I grew up, you know, in the ghetto, like, and I wasn't taught any other way to talk or a way to act or other food to eat or just like anything like that, like, when I'm I supposed to do? You know, like, is there a class I'm supposed to take to learn how to be white, you know?

I am from the ghetto.

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

I've always been drawn to love stories. Growing up, I would devour films like 'Moonstruck,' 'Ghost,' 'Love and Basketball,' and 'Love, Jones,' replacing the lovers in my imagination with two men.

I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.

I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are Hertling, Suarez, Gibson and Stephenson, but I enjoy many others. I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource.

I'm not somebody who is genetically gifted when it comes to facial hair.

I feel like everybody's on the same level. Nobody's done anything more important than any other. People have gifts in other areas. You weren't blessed with them; they were blessed with them.

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts.

My first professional gig was on a show called 'Nikita,' and I played Al Qaeda No. 2. At that time I had to take those roles because I just wanted to get my foot in the door.

As Latinos, we are many, and our geography is gigantic.

I've never relied on one job and usually have a few different gigs going.

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.

Sometimes I get gigs in weird, artsy places because weird, artsy people embraced my public-access show, which I could only have done in the way I did in New York.