Quotes About Diversity

It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.

They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time.

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.

The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.

I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range.

Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.