Quotes About Inclusion

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.

It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

What I say about myself, black footballers or black pop stars is that we have been 'elevated out of blackness.' Because when people see us, they don't see us as being black. These are the issues that we should address.

I think that because we have these big female pop stars, people forget that women and marginalized people are so underrepresented in this business.

Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.

I think everyone in high school at one point feels like they're on the outside observing what's going on. Even if you're very popular, you have an outsider experience.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

When I was younger I didn't feel I was represented in popular culture - you couldn't get a brown doll in the shops and you didn't see many brown people on TV.

What we're seeing is a backlash against any attempt, whether from the world of scholarship or popular culture, to paint non-white people back into the British past. Those of us who write about this history have long been familiar with this.

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

If you're not hiring from some groups of the population, then you're obviously missing out.

It's extremely important that we elect people that look like the population they serve.

I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.

The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.

The Arab population does not want to turn inward and be isolated.

How is our society going to progress if 50 percent of the population is not allowed to contribute?

My height was not a deterrent, and it did not make me the person I am. It was like my long brown hair or my brown eyes - a physical characteristic that differentiated me from quite a percentage of the population.

Most of my diversity conversations are had with the majority population, because frankly, those people are the people who have the most influence over everybody's career.

As the Chinese girl, you don't fit in with anybody. It wasn't a large Chinese-American population, so I didn't grow up having a community of Asian friends. Even when there were Asian people, we sort of existed on our own.