Quotes About Inclusion

I encourage people to have those tough conversations just to educate yourself on what goes on and how we can create equality in the world and grow together as one.

These sorts of conversations should be second nature, it shouldn't be hard to talk about race.

I'm happy that just about on every other show there's a Latino somewhere present, and we're not all the cooks anymore.

It's a cool thing to see Polynesians - there's not too many of us, period - but especially doing well in American sports. It's pretty cool.

As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren't written for Asians, and I think that's something that completely should happen; Why can't an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure... or the Matt Damon roles?

Why aren't there enough black cops out there? We need black cops to come in and educate some of the white cops who have issues.

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.

The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy.

Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.

One thing I do not see happening is women of certain age being represented correctly. We have to evolve conceptually.

I went to a counselor for years, and it wasn't the kind of counseling to help you - it was the 'Let's make you straight' type - but counsellors can help.

I've been told to go back to my country so many times, I can't even count.

When you've been told in ways large and small your whole life that your voice doesn't matter and that you don't count, it's not an easy thing to get over.

If people want to take the time to vote, they should be able to, and their vote should be counted.

When I saw that Laverne Cox was on the cover of 'Time' magazine, I totally lost it. It was a coup for the girls!

I was 19, 20. I didn't know what to do. I knew one thing: I never saw myself on TV or anyone like me, and I wanted to be that for someone else. I think the most courageous thing I did was ask for help.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

Would I like to see more women in the courts? Yep.

We can all play on the court and share the courts with the girls.

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

When you don't have a family, you create one.

Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues creates a context in which it can seem like one.

I believe it is incredibly important for women and people of color to become the builders and creators in technology. In order to do so, we need to know how to code or, at least, know the language of coding - what I like to call 'code speak.'

Our first major hit was 'Where Is the Love.' That was what best represented us bringing people together, no matter what walk of life, and no matter what culture or creed.