Octavia Spencer Quotes

Cultivating diversity in all its forms - of our content, products, and people - is one of our most important business imperatives.

New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.

Having diversity around the board room, the executive table, and up and down our stores is really important.

The world is diverse, and it's important for us to reflect the real world.

I consider myself to be blessed. I have a family that is a mix of different religions and different ethnicities. I hope everyone can look beyond the bikini or beyond the whole beauty pageant stereotype of Miss USA, and realize that what I'm doing is more significant than just that. It represents the United States as a country of opportunity, where you can do anything you want to, and ethnicity and religion cannot stop you.

Kids need to see their world reflected back to them.

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

In New Zealand, men and women would not take a party seriously if it did not have a good gender - and increasingly racial - mix. It's not about being politically correct; it's just who we are.

Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.

I've just always been a proponent of having a lot of diversity in the shows I've done. I just think that's the world we live in.

I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.

When I was growing up, I felt like I had to qualify it and say I'm British-Pakistani. But now I kind of feel like, in this day in age, this is what British looks like. It looks like me; it looks like Idris Elba, and hopefully through Nasir Khan, people will see that that's what an American can look like as well.

I remember watching 'Sesame Street' as a kid and loving that there were Latino characters on there.

If you believe, as we believe, that diversity leads to better products, and we're all about making products that enrich people's lives, then you obviously put a ton of energy behind diversity the same way you would put a ton of energy behind anything else that is truly important.

I love the diversity of my district, and it does drive a fair amount of my work.

Keep in mind that diversity does not just mean black. It means all of it - age, weight, gender.

My father, his values were anchored in the time, but they were also timeless, whether it's bilingualism, multiculturalism or the charter of rights and freedoms.

I have always included minority characters in my stories, often as heroes.

Diversity is just 'the world.' It's different cultures, different backgrounds, different ethnicities, different religions, genders, sexual orientation, shapes, sizes. That is the world, but we call it 'diversity' because there is this one type that has always been accepted in the media, and it's finally starting to change.

Obviously, the world is yearning for more diversity.

I want my children to attend inclusive schools where diversity is respected and acknowledged as a sign of strength.

I'm in the most diverse Cabinet.

Diversity makes us better and allows us to grow, which is what I want for WWE.

Going to an interracial high school shaped my understanding of social justice and racial inequality.