Maverick Carter Quotes

That's why the role that I have on 'Grey's Anatomy' is important to me, because it's a human being. He doesn't have to wear race on his sleeve; he doesn't even have to talk about it. We just lead by our actions.

It's important, as a young person of color, to see yourself reflected in the media.

If I go to the museum and see white bodies, black bodies, Asian bodies, Latino bodies, then I will expect to see those things every time I go. That matters a lot.

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.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.

I have to have a seat at the table. I have to have a say on how we, as African-Americans, are produced and depicted around the world. Along the way, I'll be very fair to white people.

When you surround yourself with white people, you continue to hire white people, and when you make an effort to hire people of color, that does bring in different stories and different people.

I'm your typical highly educated, progressive white dude. I've lived my life resisting racism both within myself and in the society around me.

I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance.

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.

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.

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

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.

We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.

We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.