Kristen Welker Quotes

I set out to have a diverse staff on the 'Bernie Mac Show.'

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

CNN, a part of the Time Warner company, lives for news about everything and anyone. In the office, the bosses openly discuss the need for a diverse staff and diverse stories, and each time we draw new viewers, the effort intensifies.

In a nation growing increasingly more diverse, it is imperative that the organizations tasked with keeping us informed reflect the same diversity.

The world in which we live is diverse, and I think television and film should reflect that.

Diversity is essential to the success of the news industry, and journalists must include diverse voices in their coverage in order to reach a broader audience. We have stories to tell, but many in our audience have stopped listening because they can tell that we're not talking about them.

'Diverse' shouldn't be an actionable thing - it should just be.

I think it's important to have diversity in comics for a thousand reasons. It's not just some airy conceptual thing: it's important to reflect the humanity of the readership.

We have to support everyone so their stories don't get 'invisibilized.' We don't necessarily have to repopulate the next Marvel movie with people of color, but it's just about saying 'We have hearts, we have souls, we have minds, we have faults, we have flaws, and we're super-freaking interesting.'

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

Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true.

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

There is a huge business case for diversity. You will be making products for people you don't understand, you don't interact with. If you don't have an inclusive, diverse workforce, it makes you myopic.

If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war.

In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.

I believe in diversity in front of and behind the camera.

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.

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

The only way we are going to get diversity is if the demographics of the decision-makers change... The odd-token bone thrown is not going to do it. Don't pat yourself on the back because you made that black drama; that's not diversity. It's got to be baked into the foundation of where the ideas flow from.

For me, I actively look for projects that showcase people of color.

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.

We want to make tennis look like America when it comes to cultural backgrounds.