Wanda Sykes Quotes

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.

It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.

Obviously, there needs to be parity. I think as more women get to the top, we need to make sure that is the case. It is our responsibility.

I truly believe that ESPN has been in the forefront in terms of the diversity in front of the camera and improving the balance between men and women.

I don't look at life in terms of checking the boxes, making sure you have enough women here and enough men there.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

In terms of having the American people look at the court and think of it as being fair and appropriate for our nation, it helps to have women, plural, on the court.

I think there's so many points of view that you want to make sure your stories are being told from men and women... you get all of the different backgrounds. You don't want every story being told from the same point of view. So just for better storytelling, I'm like, 'Yes, please, bring some more ladies on.'

You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.

To represent the nation, you must have multiracial representation.

People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.

The more women and people of color who find positions of influence, the more women and people of color who will find positions of influence. So we need critical mass, and we're still working toward that. I won't be satisfied until we're at the 50-50 place, where we ought to be.

I would like there to be gender equity. I would like the Broadway season to reflect sort of the demographic of the country.

Accenture has long been a champion of inclusion and diversity and, specifically, gender balance at every level of our organization, including our board of directors.

As you think about the workforce of the future, women and minorities are such an important part of that future.

The gender parity is something that has been organic to Eventbrite since we started building a team.

It's 2015. And I just want to get to the point where we're hearing female voices as much as we're hearing men's.

The feedback for 'P.S. I Still Love You' has been pretty amazing. To have written this story about this family with Asian-American characters and be so embraced is really incredible for me as a writer as well as a person of color.

If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.

On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.

I want to be able to let people who aren't used to seeing a Santa of color say, 'Wow, there he is.' It's time for America to diversify.

You cannot possibly be reaching the needs of your consumers when the makeup of your company is not reflective of the community you serve.

I know that in writer's rooms across North America, there are still conversations about how much is too much when it comes to intimacy between, in my case, two men. That's an insane conversation to be having.