John Dunne Quotes

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.

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

We believe that the Committee on the Federal Judiciary can no longer be all-white. Minority groups, particularly the black lawyers of our nation, should be represented…

[We] must come to understand what it means to be a member of the minority or other small partner people, and to be ready to give that minority assurances which are necessary for a majority..

The challenge facing America in the next century will be the shaping, at long last, of a truly common public culture, one responsive to the long silenced cultures of color.

People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.

If you walk into a room, and there is no one that's not like you there, whether it's a woman or a person of color, anyone that's different from you, you should be able to say this is a problem. We need allies in that room to say that video, this room, this company, these ideas, this film, this whatever, this is not right - this is not good enough.

It's not good enough to say we value diversity and then underrepresent women and minorities.

It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage or ethnicity - or it might not.

Just because we finally have a Latino family on TV doesn't mean we're up there to lecture people about what it means to be Latino.

I can't even believe that in 2018, I still have to lay out why diversity in anything matters.

I want to bring my color and background to the table because it makes life - and entertainment - more interesting.

That's how diversity becomes a gimmick or device, when it is introduced but not supported.

Diversity in books is a civil rights frontier.

Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true.

If more stories are told about marginalized communities, subcultures, and minorities, the less marginalized they will be.

I'm obviously a white woman with privilege. I want to make sure I always collaborate with people who aren't like me so we can create a work that isn't one dimensional.

It's really important to me to follow the kinds of conversations that happen around diversity and representation and writing inclusive books.

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

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.

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

Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see.

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

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