Quotes About Inclusion

I grew up watching shows like 'Martin' and 'Fresh Prince' and 'Moesha,' and I was inspired by all these shows. When I was growing up, there were so many black people in TV. That's just the world I was around.

Maybe we can have an all-female Marvel film. We've been talking about it. It's only a matter of time.

Marvel used to be male-dominated, and I think that's changing.

If you're in an Egyptian film and you're not Egyptian, you have to wear mascara and stuff like that.

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.

I remember distinctly not seeing myself. I didn't see myself in black culture, white culture, mass culture.

If you're mayor, it's your duty to support all the groups within the city.

I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part of it at the same time. I don't know whether that's from being a gay kid, but I definitely think that resonates with me.

The single greatest under-utilized resource we have as a nation is women and girls.

A man is able to take me to a restaurant, but he's not able to take me home to mom. Society is still not at a place yet where they see us as family.

GoPro lets people take other people along for the ride with them.

Because I don't look like most lead actresses look, I was told that I shouldn't even come to America. That I shouldn't even try! I think that's ridiculous.

The world need strong leadership for women's rights.

We're not seeing enough women rising to the top.

No Gabonese must be left by the side of the road.

If I've had roadblocks along the way for being gay, I'm not aware of them.

It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities.

What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?

You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

You have to accommodate the rich and the new rich under the same roof.

I have been in rooms with people arguing over a character that's not really fleshed out: that, just because the surname is Latino, that automatically means you have an accent.

Personally, I feel a strong responsibility to make sure that we have women equally represented in our executive suites and that we employ women in front of and behind the camera and in our writers' rooms.

My first game was against India and while my roots will always be Indian I was born in England and wanted to represent them.