Maya Angelou Quotes

One reason I'm grateful to call Hawai'i home is that the people of these islands embrace diversity and celebrate the colorful fabric of race, ethnicity, and religion that make up our people, place, and culture.

New York accepts everybody. It doesn't matter your sex, color, religion. Everybody works together to create a better life.

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.

It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

The fact that societies are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious is good. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness.

To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in.

My country is nothing if not diverse.

Diversity should be forever; it should be a normal thing.

Diversity is very, very important. I talk about it frequently. And my efforts there should never be challenged no matter what my political view.

I want to be the first guy to help people accept everybody for who they are. I'm talking about colors, religions, sex, everybody. My music is for everybody, it's not just for one kind of group.

I think, certainly, Barack Obama has created an opportunity for America to understand that diversity is a blessing, diversity is a strength. It isn't necessarily something to be concerned about. And I think, at the end of the day, we're going to learn that this country operates best when it celebrates and surrounds itself and appreciates diversity, and doesn't shun it.

There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

I consider myself to be blessed. I have a family that is a mix of different religions and different ethnicities. I hope everyone can look beyond the bikini or beyond the whole beauty pageant stereotype of Miss USA, and realize that what I'm doing is more significant than just that. It represents the United States as a country of opportunity, where you can do anything you want to, and ethnicity and religion cannot stop you.

I want a better world, I want love and harmony amongst people no matter what color you are, what race or what background you come from or sexual orientation.

We are not a nation that says 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says 'out of many, we are one.'

Diversity, that is my motto.

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

We all have our place in this diverse Spain.

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

We can be more inclusive.