Jay-Z Quotes

Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.

The New Mainstream, is the future strength of the American economic engine. I believe we need to stop thinking and acting as minorities, as none of the numbers support that concept anymore. We should even shun the term “People of Color,” which feels a little too much like “Colored People” reversed, to me. Besides I would imagine if we used the term “People Without Color,” that wouldn’t set well with those that it would be a descriptor of. We are all Americans (every color race and creed) all with unique cultural contributions that are part of the greater fabric of this country.

When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.

Most people would accept that people come to London from across the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, and are accepted here irrespective of their origins.

The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly aware of it - and there seemed to be an understanding that we were all very much in the same boat.

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.

We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

We all have our place in this diverse Spain.

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.

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.

I come from a specific area in Beirut where it's multicultural, and it's a culture that blends with multiple cultures - it's unbelievable lifestyle.

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been.

In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.