Roxane Gay Quotes

There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators.

That's how diversity becomes a gimmick or device, when it is introduced but not supported.

I think when you congratulate yourselves for diversity, that means nothing's really changed.

There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.

It's not good enough to say we value diversity and then underrepresent women and minorities.

There's a lack of diversity amongst executives in the position of greenlighting a film who feel that their stories are being told. If there's a diversity at the executive level, then we'll have diversity of the storytelling process.

We made a commitment to making diverse stories with diverse characters brought to life by diverse artists.

A lack of diversity permeates our industry, and SAG-AFTRA as an organization is committed to effecting change.

If more stories are told about marginalized communities, subcultures, and minorities, the less marginalized they will be.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see.

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.

As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.

We do not believe that minorities can only be represented by minorities..

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.

As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power of our stories, but with regards to Broadway and other commercial venues, we remain very much marginalized and excluded from that larger creative conversation.

We owe it to the audience to put more characters onscreen that reflect them and that speak to issues of race and gender as well as to a character's sexual preference.