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• ‟ How many people, though, do I meet that I think have talent? Well actually a lot. That's what drives my enthusiasm in the conversation about diversity.

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• ‟ Now, race is one of those topics in America that makes people extraordinarily uncomfortable. You bring it up at a dinner party or in a workplace environment, it is literally the conversational equivalent of touching the third rail.

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• ‟ I was in the Woodrow Wilson School of international relations and public policy at Princeton. You have to apply to get in, and I did not originally get in. I lobbied really hard and called many people. I just would not take no for an answer.

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• ‟ People can be sensitive, so if I need to, I'll suck it up and be more flowery. I'll do what it takes to get the outcome I want. As I like to say, sometimes you have to crouch to conquer.

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• ‟ The way I go about it is that we should all be inviting people into our lives who don't look like us, speak like us and don't come from where we come from.

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• ‟ If you exclude a group of people from the boardroom or the leadership ranks of a company, the company is not as good as it could be.

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• ‟ I've told stories about people coming to my office and giving me their coats and requesting that I hang them up and get coffee - which I dutifully do. And then I come in and sit at the head of the table. It's awkward.

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• ‟ There's nothing wrong with being help. But it's very wrong that we presume people of colour are in a subservient position. That's problematic.

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• ‟ In the spirit of debunking racial stereotypes, the one that black people don't like to swim, I'm going to tell you how much I love to swim. I love to swim so much that as an adult, I swim with a coach.

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