Quotes About Integration

The concept of multiculturalism is difficult to make fit with a democratic society.

The first rule of multiculturalism is that you can't talk about multiculturalism.

We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.

Extreme multiculturalism... is not the way to build this country.

Multimedia scares me off.

Multiple mergers can be challenging because people come from different backgrounds.

Hospitality is about trying to support multiple functions in one space.

When you bring multiple cultures together, there's a degree of push and pull.

My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960.

I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.

I feel we have a music industry within the film industry.

Being a Malayali, I had to learn Punjabi and Haryanvi to be able to jump into the music scene.

In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.

Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.

Typically, people think, 'Oh the hippies and the punks hated each other,' or that those things don't go together musically. Sometimes that is true, but we had equal parts of both in our musical DNA.

I know they call it the British Invasion, but musically, I call it the British Infusion.

I remember coming into 'The Lion King' and, oh forgive me Lord, but doubting it. The way that musicals are put together, we're kind of exclusive of each other. And so somebody's working on this in one room, and somebody's working that in the other room. I did not understand how all this was going to come together.

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S.

It was 1989, and the word 'Muslim' wasn't even really used in Britain at the time; you were either black or Asian.

There are some who believe that secularism and Islam are not compatible. But Muslims should show everyone that this is not the case. It's up to them to show that you can be French and Muslim and still respect secular rules.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

The question is, why do we have Muslims in the country?

I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.