Jesse L. Martin Quotes

It's not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture. So at the emerging level, you can't have a good survey art show without women and artists of color.

I'm finding that I'm working with more and more Latino artists, and that's exciting.

We do have Museums of African American Art in the United States, and there is a National Museum of Women's Art. However, I believe Latinos are best served by displaying their art next to the art of other groups, particularly North American, European, and even Asian artists.

I think it's really important that we have diversity - whether it's different languages, cultures - be involved in film and in the arts.

We could do something set in the 21st century, where I travel around to lots of different places and we talk to different ethnicities and lots of different racial and religious minorities, so it's not just the black-and-white America; it hasn't been that since the '90s.

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.

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

I appreciate America as being the most artistic nation because of its diversity.

I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose.

We've got to celebrate all diverse artists and actors and 'Aladdin' does that really well.

My introduction to art history was like everybody else's. You see an art history book that has works by Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Yes, these things are great. But I don't see a reflection of myself in any of these things I'm looking at.

I would love to see more diversity on all sides, and not just in terms of women; we need people from different walks of life making films.

We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.

We live in diverse communities with all sorts of people from all sorts of different backgrounds. The more our entertainment can be a reflection of the world we live in, the better it is for all of us.

I grew up in a very, very diverse neighborhood back home in Maryland. And when I see that on TV shows, it makes me want to watch it, personally. I just gravitate towards that.

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

We both [with Jo Andres] think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all kinds of theatre and all kinds of art because you never know what moves people. We've always believed that there should be a strong voice outside the commercial world. Certainly, the commercial world has a huge place in our culture and we also support that - but, we also want to support the stuff that lives outside of that.

Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anything to showcase diversity. It is a condition of life and art in Europe, contained in every random sample.

In "solid modernity" difference was tolerated as a temporary irritant only, expected to disappear tomorrow, when "those aliens" will become like us. "Living with strangers" was therefore not something to last and did not call for developing appropriate arts and skills. Now, however, it looks like that diasporic context of our living will not go away - it will be there forever, so learning how to live with strangers day in, day out without abandoning my own strangeness is high on the agenda.

We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.

I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that - in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the - of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House.

I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.