Beauty Quote by Amanda Gorman

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

— Moby

In my own young black life, I have done my part to gentrify a half-dozen mixed neighborhoods ranging from Spanish Harlem to Fort Greene…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

The idea of the beauty of diversity came from just growing up where I grew up. Los Angeles is a very big city -…

— Kamasi Washington

I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA.

— Mauricio Cienfuegos

When I first arrived in Los Angeles from New York in 2004 to try to break into television, I couldn't believe how segregated it…

— Courtney A. Kemp

At first, I didn't like coming down to Los Angeles at all. It's like, everything's black and white compared to where I live out…

— Max Thieriot

I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a…

— Ed Kowalczyk

Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a certain type…

— Condola Rashad

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We…

— Dennis Quaid

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the…

— Jack White

Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island.…

— Jimmy Buffett

As a person who grew up in Los Angeles - that's a very diverse place - I've always felt like that diversity is a…

— Kamasi Washington