Quotes about Diversity

All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.

When the Lord's sheep are a dirty grey, all black sheep are more comfortable.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

The best way to get along with people is not to expect them to be like you.

In essentials, unity; in inessentials, diversity; in all things, charity.

are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. Therefore

Here they were, a group as diverse as one could possibly bring together. Jew, Samaritan, Roman, Greek — all united because of one who had come from God and returned to God only a few short years ago. Surely here was living proof that the eternal truths brought to life during Jesus' time on earth meant transformation was not only possible, it was real.

I'm black. I've been black all my life, and as far as I know, I'll die black.

You can't be all things to all people.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.