Quotes About Equality

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

Gays and lesbians should have the same rights as anybody else, and when they're in Jamaica, they do have the same rights.

Obviously, I don't mind if James looks at women. He's a man, women are hot.

I am a big devourer of James Baldwin.

The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose.

I'm a big James Baldwin fan.

I grew up watching period dramas, as we all did in the 1980s and '90s - endless adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - and I loved them. But I never saw anyone like me in them, so I decided to find a story to erode the excuses for me not doing one.

Japan has huge potential in women - potential, especially in the area of the economy, that Japan is not using fully.

I worked with guys in Japan that were champions and they came over here for six months or a year and they treated them like garbage.

Slavery was legal. Japanese interment was legal in this country. Segregation was legal.

I don't see myself beneath Beyonce and Jay Z; I don't see myself above them. I'm in my own world, hungry to grow.

But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all.

I'm the female Jay-Z. I never compared myself to other women artists. I compared myself with the best, and the best is Jay-Z.

There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

It doesn't matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather not garner any of those things and speak honestly about the things that I see my people endure in this country and all over the world.

My wife's hip, beautiful and independent and never jealous.

You look at teams in college, the MMA world, and beyond that allow bullying, where guys get jealous during training and stuff like that. You need to have a space where everyone feels like they have an equal opportunity - like they have support, people watching out for them.

In real life, I'm not a catty, jealous woman, so in the industry I'm not gonna be that. I'm a real-life fan of the girls who came before me, who's coming up and at the same level as me. I'm here for it.

I don't believe in comparing myself with anyone else, as that leads to hatred and jealousy.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

What happened to equal opportunity? Not just in tennis, but everything. It's something that Billie Jean King fought for and she played Bobby Riggs for that, and beat him.

I wear girls' jeans because I've got girl legs.

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.