Quotes About Diversity

You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.

IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.

There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%

We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.

If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.

I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

I think the best roles are in dark movies. It's roles that aren't you. It's fun playing someone that's not me. If I'm playing me all the time, then it's not acting. It's just being yourself.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict.

I can't be skinny all the time. I like to drink and I like to eat. I like burgers and bagels.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.