Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

Society is unity in diversity.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

The main hope of harmony in our troubled world lies rather in the plurality of our identities, which intertwine with each other and are resistant to drastic divisions

There really is a sense of internationalism in the heartland.

Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

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

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Victoria is proudly the multicultural capital of Australia; we have a diverse, harmonious community.

Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music.

The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other.

Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.