A Quote by Maxine Greene

What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality.

Maxine Greene

Quote Topics

America Braids Crucial Diverse Ethnicity Experience Fabric Inescapable Interpreting Making Membership Opportunities Provision Stories Telling Well Woven

Quote Author

Maxine Greene
American - Philosopher
December 23, 1917 - May 29, 2014

Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.

Henry Ward Beecher

We made a commitment to making diverse stories with diverse characters brought to life by diverse artists.

Travis Knight

The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.

Adam Schiff

Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.

Rachel Simmons

All the excuses that people in power used to make for not telling diverse stories or including diverse people, they've proven to be false.

Geraldine Viswanathan

The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.

Elia Suleiman

I'm constantly telling young people that their voices and stories are important. Making a movie is such a large-scale, intense operation that imagining that you "deserve" to be making it is - well, complex.

Josephine Decker

I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

Malorie Blackman

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

Marco Rubio

I think diverse stories are just stories. I don't think 'diverse' is an add-on package. Things that are not diverse are weird because that's not accurate.

Daniel Kaluuya

Telling diverse stories is at the heart of our culture.

Brandon Victor Dixon

I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in so well, is such a part of the fabric of the story and of the characters' lives, that it is subtle but meaningful. This is difficult to do well and is something I constantly endeavor to improve.

Julie Klassen

I think Australia focuses on people that had a big start at home, like 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours' graduates, and the truth is those shows are pretty white for the most part. The diverse actors go straight to the States because that is where more diverse stories and opportunities are being presented.

Geraldine Viswanathan

Historically black colleges and universities are incredibly important institutions woven into the fabric of America. They have played such an important role in achieving progress for African Americans and in our nation's march for justice.