Quotes about Diversity

I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

You know a multicolor God who created this world is not going to put us in a white heaven. I guarantee you. But we're going to serve Him in heaven. So what does God want us to do? Practice.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

Originally, what we call rock 'n' roll was nothing more than an attempt of very bad white performers to sound like black rhythm-and-blues performers. They did their best to emulate, they did their best to paraphrase. And that started what later became rock 'n' roll.

I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.

All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself.

No one should be harassed or mistreated because of who they are, who they love, or what they believe.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour , March 9, 1998]

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.