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It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we've misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant culture. I've found a space where the terrain is different, where I'm embraced by people like me, and where I'm building new ways of doing things, as opposed to trying to insert myself in a place that might not be welcoming.

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.

When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.

I really feel that I had a genuinely diverse, multicultural upbringing, and I just don't find New York to be quite as diverse. Maybe I'm romanticising, but I feel that I was exposed to a real melting pot in terms of culture and pop culture. My kids are essentially middle-class, but I do try to remind them that they come from humble beginnings.

I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples. It breeds tolerance.