If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.
There are also people that still choose to support racist rhetoric because they feel white dominance in America is slipping through their fingers. To them, "diversity" is a codeword for white genocide. They claim that their "homelands" are being overrun by minorities and are desperate for solutions that ensure their "white survival. " This fear, of course, is irrational and solely based on a loss of white power and control.
I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldn’t it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can become your prison after a while. The identity that you stand up for can enslave you and close you to the rest of the world.
THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE EXTRAORDINARY DIVERSITY OF CULTURES AND OUR SHARED HUMAN CONDITION, IN ALL ITS VULNERABILITY AND STRENGTH.
The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced
I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.
It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.
As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.