One can find colorful ribbons on the internet which represent various groups, organizations or communities. But I rather believe there can be no single color ribbon to represent diversity among people and so I have created this ribbon slide show to demonstrate diversity with the hopes visitors will appreciate it for what it depicts.

I wish to begin with a couple quotes from my personal source of inspiration, Maya Angelou as she shares"

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

And Ms. Angelou demonstrates her understanding of
diversity via this quote :

" don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach".
 

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