Lack Diversity Quotes

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people.

There is so much incredible talent in Hollywood, and it's crazy to me that we see the same people over and over again in projects.

Fashion week is not an episode of 'Girls' or 'Friends,' where I'm OK that there is not a black person in sight because I honestly believe these characters don't come into contact with - therefore don't have - any black friends. No, in the case of Fashion week, it feels wrong.

The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people. I mean, they're a pretty monolithic party. They pretty much, they all behave the same, they all look the same. It's pretty much a white Christian party.

The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.

When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows. So, to sum it up, it seems that whenever we take a couple of steps forward, we take a few more backwards.

Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

It's not unusual for me to find that I'm the only female journalist of color in the front row during some of the briefings.

Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry... brightest.

So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

If you go to a big publishing house, editorial aside, it's completely white.

Museums and galleries do recruit art historians, but they are overwhelmingly white and middle class, or else from abroad. They understandably fret about the lack of diversity in their curating departments, but is it any wonder?

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

For the most part, it's straight white men running these labels and publishing companies.

I think, overall, there is a lack of diversity in the arts. I'm thinking about when I was in grad school: I could probably count on one hand the number of minority students in the graduate school program.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?

I was doing a lot of networking in the Valley, and I found that it was not a very diverse environment, and most of the conferences and meetup events I went to, there weren't many women or people of color in those rooms.

When you look at Westminster you think of it as pale, male and stale and I hate that so much.

I've only been three years in the industry - but I would say from my observations, my personal opinions, that the world in Hollywood and all the big movies has been built up as just white.

Being a Filipino actor in Hollywood, the most frustrating part of landing roles in Hollywood is definitely the limited roles available and the lack of diversity.