Quotes about Diversity

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.

If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.

I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone.