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" I usually get so warned when I go to Detroit, like, ‘Oh my God, don’t go to this section, don’t go to that section.’ I’ve never had any issues in Detroit. I love that there’s enough of a racial mix of people to make fun of. I’ve always had a good time there. " - Lisa Lampanelli

" Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate. " - Vivek Wadhwa

" I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn’t really have a color. " - Jidenna

" We have a really rich and diverse heritage in my family – but I sometimes felt it was a bit of a chain round my neck in the Labour party if truth be told. " - Chuka Umunna

" Until recently, Hollywood offered only a handful of roles to actors of color. The majority of my opportunities have fallen into two categories: Scary Black and Funny Black. " - Baron Vaughn

" People are racist about redheads in a way they’d never dare to be about black or Asian people. " - Mick Hucknall

" 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. " - Eric Liu

" There is a saying: ‘The child is parent to the adult’, which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that’s why fiction needs to be diverse. " - Malorie Blackman

" There is no organic process where you can take a diverse community like America and then distill it down to it only looks monolithic without having some kind of inorganic interplay going on that created that outcome. " - Tony Cardenas

" London’s greatest strength is our diversity, and it’s wonderful to see Londoners celebrating our capital’s different traditions, determined to stand up to division. " - Sadiq Khan