Soledad O'Brien Quotes

I travel a lot and all different kinds of people come up to me and talk to me about 'The Breakfast Club.' Our audience is very diverse, because we have diverse topics and guests.

'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.

I guess a lot of people don't like talking.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

I don't think that the country is ever ready to have the conversation about race.

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.

Disability, in general, hasn't been included in the conversation about inclusivity.

In England, you feel like a member of the revolutionary guard the minute you even mention race. But I do think that the OscarsSoWhite phenomenon will have to reflect back on England. What people are essentially saying is that they want to see more diverse stories. It's not about putting three black people in the back of the shot.

Obviously, the world is yearning for more diversity.

I'm always wanting and willing to be a voice for my people, a voice for the injustice.

What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that you were colour-blind.

I am not a Somali representative. I am not a Muslim representative. I am not a millennial representative. I am not a woman representative. I am a representative who happens to have all of these marginalized identities and can understand the intersectionality of all of them in a very unique way.

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 love to sit down and have a conversation with like-minded people.

The call for diversity is about recognizing that in order to be in the conversation come awards season, it goes back to the content that is being produced.

I think it's important to always have diversity, in our Congress or anywhere, but you also need diversity not just for women of color who are most underrepresented, but diversity in different walks of life.

The issue with race particularly within this country is largely because of lack of dialogue.

In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them.

I wish that all different types of people of all races and all upbringings were all equally represented in this industry that influences so many people.

Wedding films are always about the differences between people. But they haven't quite dealt with African-Americans and Latinos.

My 'Vogue' is about being inclusive; it's about diversity. Showing different women, different body shapes, different races, class. To be tackling gender.

I want to represent Asian women.