Valerie Jarrett Quotes

I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.

Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the better. We have the opportunity to raise the bar in the faith-based world by forging a culture in which inclusivity, diversity, and equality are paramount.

If you believe, as we believe, that diversity leads to better products, and we're all about making products that enrich people's lives, then you obviously put a ton of energy behind diversity the same way you would put a ton of energy behind anything else that is truly important.

I think that if companies build for diversity from the beginning from the ground up, that's definitely the ideal state for how to build diversity into your company.

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

Diversity is not only color, but it also includes individuals with disabilities.

Diversity is not just the right thing to do but right for business.

Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.

Managers have to demand more of their HR departments, and they have to demand more of themselves. And we all have to be open to hiring people that don't look like us and that don't sound like us, and not find that threatening.

Frankly, it can be lonely at the top when it comes to driving diversity.

Diversity is not just about the fact that the pictures look better. I mean, they always do look better!

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!

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.

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.

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

There is a huge business case for diversity. You will be making products for people you don't understand, you don't interact with. If you don't have an inclusive, diverse workforce, it makes you myopic.

Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see.

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

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something about it, crafting strong, modern heroes for a modern audience.

In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.

I believe in diversity in front of and behind the camera.

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.

As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.