Quotes about Diversity

I love my gay fans. Gay people are always usually my best friends in the whole world. I completely adore them.

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion?

Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to.

I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing.

I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

I grew up in Tennessee, where no one was really hairy, and with sisters who were so beautiful - my little sister was a pageant girl. But me, I was this weird-looking hairy child. I had more than just a unibrow; I feel like I had a mustache, a goatee.