Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people who have their acts together, either.

My audience here in America is so eclectic. It's a real mix of people, which is great. Like what I was doing with Culture Club - world music, multiculturalism - not defining everything in terms of sexuality or color. It was about everyone coming together and being part of something.

I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.

This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

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.

There should be a place and the space for all pop.

We should do more than tolerate our diversity. We should honor and celebrate it..

Assimilation was never the goal of the diverse ethnic groups in America. Inclusion without discomfort is now, and ever will be, the goal.

Tolerance is common sense in a pluralistic society.

I love my neighborhood: There are Russian families, the artistic community, the gay community, and industry professionals - all ethnicities and ages are represented. That's the kind of neighborhood that I grew up in.

I am proud that London is a city where, the vast majority of the time, Jewish people, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, those who are not members of an organized faith, black, white, rich, young, gay, lesbian - don't simply tolerate each other but respect, embrace, and celebrate each other.

In Florida, we're the best melting pot in the world. We love everybody coming to our state.

The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

I believe in diversity in thought, in culture, and all sort of things.

We are a diverse people, man.

Let's not fantasize about having a world of only trans people or only of LGBTQ people. Let's fantasize about a world in which we all can co-exist and where there is just talent that recognizes talent.

Whether they are Jewish, Muslim, Christian, or atheist, everybody has a place in this society.

'The Red Era' is for everybody. Every gay, every fluid, every black, every white.

I grew up with a lot of friends who are white, black, Muslim, non-Muslim. I like people a lot.

We must never allow demagogues to divide us up by race, by religion, by national origin, by gender, or sexual orientation. Black and whites, Latino, Asian-American, Native American, Christian, Jew, Muslim, and every religion - straight or gay, male or female - we must stand together. This country belongs to all of us.

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