Hasan Minhaj Quotes

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

We are Americans, not only by birth and by citizenship, but by our political ideals, our language, our religion. Farther than that, our Americanism does not go. At that point, we are Negroes, members of a vast historic race that from the very dawn of creation has slept, but half awakening in the dark forests of its African fatherland.

We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religions. We have to be better about reflecting what our world looks like.

I am African-American, and I am a proud African-American. I just don't like to put myself in a box and say, 'I'm an African-American actress.' I am an American actress, and I can do any kind of role.

There are several different traits that make up a person's identity. For me, being Vietnamese American is the entirety of who I am.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.

I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.

The challenge facing America in the next century will be the shaping, at long last, of a truly common public culture, one responsive to the long silenced cultures of color.

The fallacies of the Melting Pot theory have also become obvious. Years before the war [WWI] it had become increasingly apparent that the Melting Pot was no longer successfully performing its function; that the American population was losing its homogeneous character; that various nationalities of recent immigrants were forming more and more compact racial "blocs," each bloc tenaciously maintaining its own racial character, customs, and traditions.

Often, when you go to the movies or the theatre, you think, Jesus Christ, everybody is white. But my daughter goes to an amazing dance school called Ballet Black, and they have every colour: dark, white, mixed. It looks like the future to me.

The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.

We want the diversity of the world that is around us represented both in front of and behind the camera, and on our screens as a result.

'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.

It should be very normal to see people of different races and ethnic minorities playing different parts.

I've always seen myself as an all-American kid, you know. You're not just white or black or Asian or Latino. We're in the melting pot of America.

Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.

It's okay, it's cool to be Indian and there are cool people that are Indian and doing really well. It's okay to be brown and cool.

I may be brown on the outside, but on the inside, I'm all American.

I'm a very cultural person, and Canada is a very cultural place.

Diversity matters. You want your city departments to look like the city.