Aileen Lee Quotes

In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

The best thing we can do is prepare people to lead in a much more diverse environment and see that as one of our national assets and one of the things that makes America strong.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

From 'Fonejacker,' multiculturalism has been a big part of my repertoire.

At Affectiva, we hire top talent - and the entire world is our search space. I take pride in the cultural diversity of our team, and we celebrate it.

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

We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.

I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.

I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

The longer you work here, diverse it gets.

I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

My humour comes from acknowledging different communities. That's what my fans are responding to - they know that I 'get it.' I understand them. I take the time to understand them. I get more complaints from people when I don't talk about them. I've had guys come up to me after a show and go, 'You didn't talk about Latvians!'

And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.

I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.

In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.

I think why my content does so well with so many different types of people is because it speaks to everyone. I'll make a Soca music reference, I'll use a Tamil word, I'll do a Jamaican Patois accent. I know about all these people, and I'm not afraid to indulge in their culture.

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.

Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.