Quincy Jones Quotes

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

A lot of people don't know this, but Toronto is probably the most multicultural city in North America.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

England really is at the forefront of being a melting pot of all cultures.

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

Australia will be a multiracial nation in the future.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

Paris was a melting pot.

I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.

I really love Japan, and I liked living there very much, and there are so many terrific things about Japan. However, I do think what's amazing is that Japan really prides itself on being monoracial. It doesn't have the same kind of idea as in the U.K. or Canada or the United States, in which the idea of diversity is a strength.

I've always seen myself as an all-American kid, you know. You're not just white or black or Asian or Latino. We're in the melting pot of America.

The idea of the beauty of diversity came from just growing up where I grew up. Los Angeles is a very big city - there's Little Ethiopia, Little Armenia, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, there's African-Americans, Latinos, Europeans.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

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

This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.

London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

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.

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.

I knew I couldn't live in America, and I wasn't ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City... It was tolerant. It was a place that tolerated differences and could incorporate them and embrace them, which was what America was supposed to be about and wasn't.

We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.

The prominence given to our nation as a rainbow country has its genesis and credence in our 'Calaloo culture' of which our East Indian brothers and sisters have played a principal part.