One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
Shannon L. AlderStichwörter: empowerment self-esteem integrity confidence courage bravery conformity different self-worth self-respect alone diversity choices false personality remorse uniqueness regret blending-in regrets fake self-love hiding true-self standing-up-for-other-women
Love is the key to diversity
Cherrye S. VasquezWe ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the skies so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
Johannes KeplerStichwörter: science rich nature diversity
We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute best of our ability — and this, this is more than enough.
sera breakStichwörter: conformity self-respect spirituality diversity inner-divinity
Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.
Edward O. WilsonStichwörter: science biology environment evolution diversity preservation
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
Carlos FuentesStichwörter: immigration diversity refugees
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody.
They may be teaching that still.
Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’
I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.
Stichwörter: education diversity anthropology
The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
AberjhaniStichwörter: diversity americans poem-in-your-pocket-day national-poetry-month multiculturalism world-poetry-day poets-and-poetry national-history-day black-history-month contemporary-poetry multiculturalismo american-identity american-poets contemporary-authors contemporary-poets writers-and-writing
Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.
David SchwarzerStichwörter: language diversity pride culture
Aside from wanting to write cracking good books that turn children into lifelong readers, I really want to create stories that enable kids to LOOK at the world around them. To see it for what it is, with wide open, wondering eyes. Our mass media is so horribly skewed. It presents this idea of 'normalcy' which excludes and marginalises so many for an idea of commercial viability which is really nothing but blinkered prejudice. People who are black and Asian and Middle Eastern and Hispanic, people who are gay or transgendered or genderqueer, people who have disabilities, disfigurements or illnesses - all have this vision of a world which does not include them shoved down their throats almost 24-7, and they're told 'No one wants to see stories about people like you. Films and TV shows about people like you won't make money. Stories about straight, white, cisgendered, able-bodied people are universal and everyone likes them. You are small and useless and unattractive and you don't matter.'
My worry is that this warped version of 'normal' eventually forms those very same blinkers on children's eyes, depriving them of their ability to see anyone who isn't the same as them, preventing them from developing the ability to empathise with and appreciate and take joy in the lives and experiences of people who are different from them. If Shadows on the Moon - or anything I write - causes a young person to look at their own life, or the life of another, and think, 'Maybe being different is cool' I will die a happy writer.
-Guest blog - what diversity means to me
Stichwörter: writing diversity minorities
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