Omar Epps Quotes

We have to accept the world has become this place where we have to interact with people who are very different from us.

I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.

There’s no reason to be upset. This was a display of pluralism. We Mexicans need to get used to new times.

The young people of every nation are coming to resemble each other more and more, and are slowly becoming strangers to chauvinism and racism.

I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017.

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been.

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

What makes the world such a wonderful place is the diversity. I have always strived to fill my home, my office and my hotels with the most diverse crowds possible.

And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.

I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.

There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there's a diversity of taste for food. I don't label or characterize Jews in any way.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

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.

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.

I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.

I've just always been a proponent of having a lot of diversity in the shows I've done. I just think that's the world we live in.

How do I let go of Maplewood? It's like Shangri-la. It's so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted - a transracial family. And we're not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood!

One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!

Tolerance is respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures... It is not only a moral duty, it is also a political and legal requirement.

There was a time when politicians could appeal to prejudice and intolerance by baiting the opposition with red-meat code words. Not now. In this new millennium, the world is smaller, as different cultures, traditions, and religious beliefs are merged together.