Category: diversity
Enamored With These Beautiful, Young Faces
“It takes a lot for our hearts and our minds and our eyes to get there, where we start viewing groups that look different than us not as groups but as individuals.”
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Fuels My Ball of Fire
"I'll see people down the hallway, and they'll walk out a door because they know who I am. They don't want to 'catch the gay.'"
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Racially Motivated
"People may turn it on people and say, 'You did this because I'm black and you're white,' and 'You're racist.' It hurts you inside."
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Of Course – She Was My Roommate
"You have to embrace the differences because it helps you realize who you are and who you're not, who you don't wanna be or who you do wanna be."
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I Have a Mohawk; I’m Scaring People
"On those really, silly, totally American, almost hackneyed or clichéd topics, you find these commonalities, and then you can just burrow from there."
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On My Own Terms
"We're all fundamentally the same and our differences are trivial, and I disagree with that wholeheartedly. We're fundamentally different, and we have an unbelievable amount in common."
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Diversity Should Come Naturally
"How many people are willing to step out of their comfort zones and learn about different worldviews?"
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Barriers
"We definitely need to work on meeting somewhere in the middle."
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A Comfort Thing
"Almost just the thought of going to that event not knowing anyone terrifies the crap out of me."
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