Quotes about Diversity

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

God has a team. It's made up of African-American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and a variety of other people and cultures. He never wants you to make your distinction, your history, or your background so precious to you that it messes up His team.

Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead.

In general, in my life, one of the coolest things that I've been able to do is to go to different places and meet different people and see how they view the world and to learn what their music is and what their language is, and the food they eat and everything. That idea of the beauty of the vastness of the world has just been my life.

If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea.

We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

Families come in all shapes and sizes, and they don't have to fit the perfect dream ideal to make you happy. They are the people that support and love you by giving you strength when you need it the most.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.