Quotes about Diversity

The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.

They think, after the biggest of the white folks no longer on the earth, the only way to stop making somebody the serpent is for everybody to accept everybody else as a child of God, or one mother's children, no matter what they look like or how they act.

I believe that the truth about any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together, and all their different meanings make one new one. Each writer writes the missing parts to the other writer's story. And the whole story is what I'm after.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

When I found out I thought God was white, and a man, I lost interest.

In 2005, The Color Purple became a phenomenally successful Broadway musical, playing to packed houses every night for over a year. In the process it transformed the "Great White Way" into a place where people of all colors, orientations and identities gathered to experience the show and to celebrate "God" as Life and Love, Perseverance, Hope, Creativity and Joy.

so you just think all the people from the bible were white too. But really white white people lived somewhere else during those times. That's why the bible says that Jesus Christ had hair like lamb's wool. Lamb's wool is not straight, Celie. It isn't even curly.

the only way to stop making somebody the serpent is for everybody to accept everybody else as a child of God

More than anything else, God love admiration … wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God odd if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

The American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us.

My mother's creed is the American creed: No one is better than you. You are everyone's equal, and everyone is equal to you.

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.