Quotes About Progress

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

It's a bit disturbing to me that people have to evolve to the idea that people are equal.

I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.

I'm not a diva - not yet, anyway.

I'm excited about developing as a Diva and finding where my place is in this company.

I believe in the future of AI changing the world. The question is, who is changing AI? It is really important to bring diverse groups of students and future leaders into the development of AI.

Comedy is changing. The appetite for more diverse stories is getting bigger.

I've been getting diverse roles.

In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

I don't think quotas are necessarily an evil. I think when we look at industry in general back to the '60s and the '50s, the way more diverse people like my dad and mom's generation were able to break into industry was because of affirmation action, because of quotas.

If you are not diverse, you are saying, 'I don't want to be successful.'

We believe that if you want to have diverse leaders 10 years down the road, we've got to make sure they're getting the right assignments, the right client experiences today.

I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017.

The bigger the movies you're in, the chances are better at getting more diverse roles.

What I'm really excited for is to see the evolution of trans characters and see more diverse stories be told, so that every time we're on screen, we're not really playing the part of educator and having to explain the experience to the audience, because it will have already been normalized.

That's a goal of mine and the sport. To become more diverse and change the demographic, bring in a new face.

Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

We can bring diversification through industry.

Hollywood has to diversify.

As we move to diversify our economy, we are particularly aware that we need oil to get out of oil.

I know in my state, I am leading innovation and we need to diversify the economy. But you can't have innovation unless you have education.

Together, we can put pressure on our employers to do better, to represent the rich diversity of the audience they serve, to stop painting women as sidekicks, as appendages or accessories to men.

Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.

Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.