Mahershala Ali Quotes

The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.

Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.

I wish that all different types of people of all races and all upbringings were all equally represented in this industry that influences so many people.

You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

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

I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

We come from a very mixed family. We're a bunch of different races, my family. So it's very normal for us. I don't know why we're accepted. Are all of us accepted or just me?

I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

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.

The challenge facing America in the next century will be the shaping, at long last, of a truly common public culture, one responsive to the long silenced cultures of color.

Discrimination still exists. Some people feel that their own beliefs are being threatened. Some are unhappy about unfamiliar cultures. They all need to be reassured that there is so much to be gained by reaching out to others; that diversity is indeed a strength and not a threat.

Minority ethnic issues need to be mainstream issues.

I will, till the day I die, be an advocate for the d-word: diversity.

Diversity is just 'the world.' It's different cultures, different backgrounds, different ethnicities, different religions, genders, sexual orientation, shapes, sizes. That is the world, but we call it 'diversity' because there is this one type that has always been accepted in the media, and it's finally starting to change.

It should be very normal to see people of different races and ethnic minorities playing different parts.

We need to include more writers from different backgrounds and ethnicities. We need to see different experiences instead of the same people writing the same kinds of stories.

We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religions. We have to be better about reflecting what our world looks like.

You can't avoid the conversation of diversity and remembering that diversity goes beyond race and culture. It goes into gender and sexual orientation and all sorts of things.

The best thing about this country is the difference in all of us. We all come from different backgrounds. It's a really beautiful thing.

The U.S. is a rainbow of people with an endless scope of stories. My hope is that writing stories about people of color will become instinctual rather than something to be pushed for.

I will say that equity overall is an important issue and one we are constantly looking at. In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.

It's really important to me to follow the kinds of conversations that happen around diversity and representation and writing inclusive books.

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.