Quotes about Diversity

While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.

Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

My casting in 'Halo' produced by Steven Spielberg, which I am doing, is just color-blind casting; Asians have been questioning why best roles should not come to them and I am so happy about this color-blind casting. I am going to be just what I am in that film.

You want to stick with one sport and master one thing and be good, yeah, you might be able to go to more combines, but the life experiences and athleticism you get from playing three sports or whatever will stick with you and help you progress.

Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

I definitely don't want to only make music in the Christian genre. I want to expand and kind of dive into whatever else is in store. But that doesn't mean I don't love what I get to do as well.

I remember trying to turn one of my Barbies into Storm, and I melted her hair off.

Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.'

We must make every effort to extend a hand to the stranger, and continue to fight to make sure we don't give up on our American values.

All asylum seekers at our border should remind us that we are a nation of immigrants and that we were once strangers at the border.