Quotes About Inclusion

I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

Being 'out and proud' can feel like a real luxury of Western culture, where people are often white and see existing white gay people in their culture. That's a kind of privilege people don't know they possess.

There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.

I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge.

Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.

Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.

I am proud to state that every national Jewish organization we support enforces non-discrimination practices around sexual orientation and that more than 70 percent have written policies in place covering gender identity and expression.

The more women directors that get hired, the more practices will shift, top down.

Gay folks go to church. We pray to the Lord too.

Before I go to those teams, I say, 'Hey, I'm a Muslim and I have to pray five times a day.' And they respect it so much that they give me a prayer room. So before the game, after the game, before practice, before I fly out, I can go to that room whenever I want and pray.

There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a black woman directing films in Hollywood.

'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me.

There's a lot of preconceived ideas of what disability is, what a disabled person should be like, and I try to throw that in your face.

We did a black 'Julius Caesar' in which the predominant accent was Caribbean. This offends many people, you know. I also had a Chinese Marc Anthony. I also managed - this caused a great shock - I also got some white guys in it as well!

As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

I've always been the only girl in those environments. It's comfortable for me - I prefer it, actually.

We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

The whole idea that someone should not be able to marry who they love based on their gender and their preference is ridiculous.

I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate.

Sexual preference has nothing to do with civil rights.

In 'Climax' there are all kinds of colours of skin, all kinds of genders, sexual preferences - but I don't care, I chose my favourite dancers.

There will come a time when very few will care about other people's sexual preference - or preferences.

The people with whom I've worked in the Special Operations community are more concerned with an individual's contribution to the team, and their ability to do their job exceptionally well, than their race or sexual preferences.