Quotes about Diversity

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

Every time I go to these racial forums, it is people who are alike, or it is progressives and liberals. So I said, 'At some point, we've got to bring the progressives and the liberals and the conservatives together.'

Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.

I'm a proud woman. I'm a proud man. I'm a proud whatever people think I am.

Most of the time, the artists are not supposed to wear the fashion. It is always seen as a vanity. But I think I don't need to prove anything in my life. I can honestly say I love fashion and I can be many things at the same time.

there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race

It's not what color you are or how you fare with fans, it's who you are and what personality you have.

We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments.

We need more balance in the world - more balance of the feminine and the masculine.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.