Quotes about Diversity

There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.

It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.

Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.

There's so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn't ever exactly the same.

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.

My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.

People do want to see themselves reflected. They'll never believe that Gwen Graham, Philip Levine, Chris King, or Jeff Greene will be a better representative of their interests than I will be.

I am representing my community, in a sense, especially given the fact that there are not as many Latino actors out there.

Congress increasingly represents the diversity of America.

I was not creating icons when I wrote the 'The X-Men' and the 'The New Mutants.' I was creating people.

I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I want to call attention to the fact that women directors are here all over the world.

You don't have to be Latino to speak powerfully about how important it is to have a police department that cares for our immigrant communities.