diversity challenges Quotes

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.

There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.

When you say 'diversity,' the term has been denigrated over the years because it has been used as a crutch.

Greater diversity can produce real conflicts of values and interests, but it also generates unjustified fears…. The visibility of ethnic difference means that it often overshadows other forms of diversity.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

If we could create higher education from scratch, would we have organizations that divide people by race, class and gender at institutions that are supposed to be encouraging diversity? No!

Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.

One of the things that Americans, as a multiracial society, feel is a tremendous sensitivity to racial comments of all kinds.

If anything, I've seen myself as the full spectrum of colors, and to be faced with not being able to do something just because I'm of a particular race has been something that I've always found very difficult - even today.

We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.

Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse population. We also do a better job at curing cancer and containing pollution. But no one goes around mindlessly exclaiming: "Cancer is a strength!" "Pollution is our greatest asset!

I played a Siamese girl from Thailand. I played an Arabian girl. I did a lot of American Indians. I never, ever was able to do a part without assuming some kind of accent.

… governments have always been reluctant to tie their hands with human rights considerations, and cultural and religious diversity guarantees that the secular global rights regime will always have detractors and foes.

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'

I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world.

Frankly, it can be lonely at the top when it comes to driving diversity.

I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy.

The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that reside solely within the film industry.

The reason to have more racial diversity on any team is because it's helpful to have different perspectives on any issue. And I also believe that. It's easier said than done, unfortunately.

We are a multicultural society in a continuous state of abrasion.

The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.

The military has been actually remarkable at dealing with race, but gender is an issue.

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.