Okieriete Onaodowan Quotes

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

When advertisers ignore diversity, it is because they don't think the lives of others matter. There is not enough of a financial imperative for those lives to matter.

There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators.

I think when you congratulate yourselves for diversity, that means nothing's really changed.

It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage or ethnicity - or it might not.

A lack of diversity permeates our industry, and SAG-AFTRA as an organization is committed to effecting change.

I'm obviously a white woman with privilege. I want to make sure I always collaborate with people who aren't like me so we can create a work that isn't one dimensional.

What I do used to be called 'diversity training,' then 'cultural competency' and now, 'anti-racism.' These terms are really useful for periods of time, but then they get coopted, and people build all this baggage around them, and you have to come up with new terms, or else people won't engage.

While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

We do not believe that minorities can only be represented by minorities..

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.

If you walk into a room, and there is no one that's not like you there, whether it's a woman or a person of color, anyone that's different from you, you should be able to say this is a problem. We need allies in that room to say that video, this room, this company, these ideas, this film, this whatever, this is not right - this is not good enough.

There's a lack of diversity amongst executives in the position of greenlighting a film who feel that their stories are being told. If there's a diversity at the executive level, then we'll have diversity of the storytelling process.

Just because we finally have a Latino family on TV doesn't mean we're up there to lecture people about what it means to be Latino.

I can't even believe that in 2018, I still have to lay out why diversity in anything matters.

Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true.

If more stories are told about marginalized communities, subcultures, and minorities, the less marginalized they will be.

It's really important to me to follow the kinds of conversations that happen around diversity and representation and writing inclusive books.

Hollywood needs more diversity.

I'm getting offered roles that aren't designed for aboriginal people; they're designed for anybody. It's pretty surreal and mind-blowing.

Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.