Mohsin Hamid Quotes

What makes the world such a wonderful place is the diversity. I have always strived to fill my home, my office and my hotels with the most diverse crowds possible.

We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.

America at its best is inclusive and not exclusive.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

We are not a nation that says 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says 'out of many, we are one.'

People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what – and who – we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.

Diversity, that is my motto.

Let's be honest, L.A. is not a bad place to live. There are some crazy people there, but I tend to get on with them!

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people who have their acts together, either.

Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.

I grew up with all kinds of people.

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.

How do I let go of Maplewood? It's like Shangri-la. It's so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted - a transracial family. And we're not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood!

We're just welcoming people to our city.

New Americans are not to be feared as strangers. They are to be welcomed as neighbors.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in.

Diversity is just 'the world.' It's different cultures, different backgrounds, different ethnicities, different religions, genders, sexual orientation, shapes, sizes. That is the world, but we call it 'diversity' because there is this one type that has always been accepted in the media, and it's finally starting to change.

I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017.

The truth is all kinds of people exist everywhere. So let's tell their stories, too.