Diverse Contributions Quotes

We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual.

We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments.

MVP, you could have picked a name out of a hat... we have a group of MVPs. You don't rely on one guy. You have to get contributions from everyone.

Let's teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars; merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing; women will sew; laborers will lend a hand; the children will bring flowers.

It seems to me that's the only way you can have a truly creative aggregate of people is if they're all contributing in different ways.

Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.