Ed Sheeran Quotes

I grew up around whites, I grew up around Jews, I grew up around blacks, I grew up around Hispanics. We moved a lot.

All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.

I think that in L.A., one thing that nobody will ever talk about is, for instance, how just one in five kids in L.A. County is white, so when you're looking out there, it's a very brown city.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A.

I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.

L.A. is my American city.

I love living in Los Angeles.

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.

Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.

... currently Latinos are 63% of all babies born in Los Angeles, White is 17%, Black and Asian combined are 21%. In other words, 84% of all births in Los Angeles, are not white. Hollywood please take note.

The first time I ever saw a black audience at our concert, we were in Zimbabwe.

I've grown up in a very diverse background.

Some people in America don't ever interact with black people outside of television, so we should give them real, believable characters.

Los Angeles has always been very supportive of us.

There is no doubt that diversity is a problem in show business and that this fight has been going on for a long time.

I had never seen a white teacher before, but Mrs. Henry was the nicest teacher I ever had.

I had white family members, black family members, white friends, black friends by the time I was 16.

I'm just used to the L.A. music life.

At Harvard, I grew up a lot in terms of being able to deal with different types of people because where I grew up in Arizona, it's predominately white and predominantly Mormon families, so there's not a whole lot of diversity.

Three weeks into being in Hollywood, I was playing with Slash through an ad in the paper.

I was born and raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, which as you can imagine, was not the most diverse place to grow up in as a Korean American.

I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.

I do want to say, though, in terms of the people who are coming to see [Donald Trump], how thrilling it was to turn the corner and see people from entertainment, from the private sector, people of different races and ethnicities.

In fact, I think new media is going to make a big difference with injecting more people of color into Hollywood and non-Hollywood.