Quotes about Diversity

I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

Every time you learn a new language, your understanding of language overall grows, so every time I would learn new music, my understanding of music would grow because I was taken to an extreme in a different direction, and that was, in effect, carrying over into what I do.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People...ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.

We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.

Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.

It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.

I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.

Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

Contrary to the assumptions of Western moral traditions, human beings are (1) not free in their actions but governed by necessity; (2) not transparent to themselves and others in their motivations, but opaque; (3) not similar to each other and therefore subject to the same moral code, but each different.

One constant is that, to achieve all the purposes of reading, the desideratum must be the ability to read different things at different—appropriate—speeds, not everything at the greatest possible speed. As Pascal observed three hundred years ago, "When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing." Since

Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms.