Quotes About Inclusion

My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot in a person.

New York is like a melting pot: so many different people, so many different cultures.

America is a melting pot. Our diversity is our strength.

The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.

I never heard anything about 'potatoes' or 'kanaken' during my time in the national team. However I have been called 'potato,' too.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.

Two gay guys doing a beautiful duet - I think it would just be so powerful, you know.

I very much consider myself British.

I don't know if I'm ever considered a part of the community I'm in.

Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.

Let's be clear about one thing everyone should know: Affirmative action is constitutional.

There's no real test of how Asian you need to be to be able to own your Asianness, and it's always going to be an area of contention.

People act like art is a white thing - or not for people of colour - when, really, so much culture and art comes from people of colour. I want everyone to get into what I am doing. So sometimes I don't like to work just in an art context because it feels like a lot of people aren't going to see it. I like it to be a part of everyday life.

If the power was equitable, then our boards, then our commissions, our contracting, our wealth-building opportunities would all look very different.

I'm a walking contradiction on so many levels. I'm gay, black, and a Christian.

I feel that this nation should open its doors to any person that would like to contribute to this society.

Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.

Women with opportunities are women who can contribute.

My name is always just added into any controversy without clarifying with me first.

As a black man working in the business, it's a challenge sometimes to get some of these things and these stories told when they don't quite fit in a box or convention of what people expect of you or what you should be telling.

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

When you are young, coming into this business, you're told how the business works, and you feel very lucky to be here and want to stick around, so you believe the data, and you believe the conversations you're having where they say, 'You can't have that kind of lead because they don't travel here,' or, 'People will think it's not for them.'