Camilo Villegas Quotes

When I was a little kid, I don't remember looking up and seeing so many Hispanic athletes out there.

Nationalism can be a destructive force when it promotes intolerance and division. But it can also be a force for good, when it seeks to defend local autonomy against the homogenizing forces of larger entities.

I'd love to be a role model for black kids, whether they play hockey or not.

I was always a wrestling fan, and being an Arab kid who grew up in Canada, there was no representation for people like me.

I went to a private girls' school where I was one out of five girls in the class who looked like me.

Representing young black girls and giving them hope and the light and letting them know that they can do anything is important to me as a little black girl, too.

Growing up in my mother's Pueblo household, I never imagined a world in which I would be represented by someone who looked like me.

First of all, Asian representation hardly exists to begin with.

In fiction you're not often writing about the typical; you are interested in outliers, the points of interest. Part of it comes from feeling I was the only Asian or person of colour... another part comes from my personality: I'm an introvert, and my usual survival mode in a large group is to stand by a wall and watch everybody.

It was a Labour prime minister who appointed the first black male and female cabinet ministers.

There weren't many black players when I was growing up, and I remember playing and looking up to the ones that were playing.

I'm the first South Asian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.

If I were to have seen more people that looked like me - because I'm Palestinian and Lebanese - and talked like me and acted like me, I probably would have had a lot more hope knowing that I wasn't alone. I really hope that this show, 'Champions,' gives that to people.

I don't want to take too much responsibility, where I'm like, 'Oh, I'm representing Asia.'

It turns out that the term 'diversity' can be anything from black faculty to military veterans. Well, I am both, but have yet to be subjected to discrimination because I'm a veteran.

A lot of times in comedy, and also in podcasting and television, there are different kinds of voices that can be celebrated. So you can have 'Insecure' exist, you can have a '2 Dope Queens' exist, you can have 'The Mindy Project' exist - very distinct, funny voices from women and from people of color.

Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make this multitude of faces, the view from where I now stood, a little more various. If they could have heard me, I would have confided in them: As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this to help yourself. Look at it as an opportunity, and leverage that opportunity by making a visible contribution.

They do a heck of a job with the PGA professionals around the country and taking care of the clubs and country clubs and everything else, but when it comes to understanding the guys out here on Tour and everything else, I don't think they get it because they're not out here on a regular basis.

I want the President to look across the country and find the best man woman or minority that he can find

America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live.

Diversity, to the left, means minorities get even with, minorities triumph, minorities get payback. That's what diversity means.

The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus my attention on black work, but true change would include brown work, and it would include work by Asian-Americans, and it would include natives, and it would include women, and it would include more LGBTQ voices.

The last few years I've been doing the Middle East thing, and it's a tough decision whether to go there and try and knock off some events as a European Tour member, this year I think overall looking at my results, I played a little bit better on the West Coast than I have in the Middle East, so that was another determining factor for coming back here to an event that I have had some success in the past.