Nina Shaw Quotes

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.

The world is diverse, and it's important for us to reflect the real world.

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.

We live in a niche world.

I lived in L.A. for four years, and basically, every corner you go to, or in a restaurant, you can't even find people from the same background.

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

My mom was concerned that us four little black girls have a really well-balanced life. She wanted us to be around people like us, but we also went to private school and traveled all the time. Now I fit in most places because I've been most places.

Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.

I did not want my children to grow up only knowing other upper-middle-class kids like themselves.

I've been with all walks of life... All people from all status.

Each and every one of us has multiple identities, and this is a fact that should be celebrated. I for example, am a queer black woman who grew up poor in Los Angeles.

The traveling that 'Catfish' affords us and the cross-section of America that we see on a constant basis, I would have never gotten that living in the bubble that is Los Angeles or going home to visit my parents in the bubble that is New York.

Having come from a working-class family in the rural South, the fashion industry opened my eyes to culture, arts, and the world.

Living in Constanta under communism, we did not have the ethnic diversity that I then encountered in America.

Not everybody gets to travel halfway around the world to see a whole different perspective. If we can see that on TV, we'll know that society is bigger than the small world we all live in.

I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.

Diversity matters. You want your city departments to look like the city.

You have to go to other countries to realize Taipei is a place where there is diversity of thought.

Being in the entertainment industry, I do have some privileges, but when I'm off sets and in the real world, I'm a trans individual whose rights and safety have been taken away.

I find that I often forget that people come from all over. In interfaces, products, experiences, and building for people, we always forget that people are not us.

I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.