Quotes About Inclusion

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

I'd never presume to understand what it's like to be in a community I've never been a part of, but I can show up, listen and learn.

To try and to pretend that there's no difference between where we come from is so dumb.

In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.

We had a severely autistic kid in my class, and I was always picked last in gym class, even after him. Naturally, that made me feel pretty bad as an eight-year-old.

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

I would have young dancers come to me and ask me questions and want to know what my experiences were like: 'What's it like being a black dancer?' So I just felt like it was necessary for me to share my experiences with them.

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

What I address is that I know that if I was some shades darker that I wouldn't be in the band. I think that was so important for me to address because it is true.

I'm so proud to help put women's darts on the map.

Us women, we can play darts.

Big Data is neither color-blind nor gender-blind. We can see how it is used in marketing to segment people.

We're fortunate in my family because we really have three families: my brother, David, and me; the two boys, Cooper and Marston, from my dad's second marriage; and my dad's wife, Crystal.

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

Most people think that it would be hard to be on a set or act for people with autism. But when you think about it, most people with autism use a script in their daily life to communicate in social situations, like at a restaurant, or you know, with a day-to-day conversation.

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.

To really understand a deaf person's experience, you need someone that is deaf to be able to tell you what their experience is.

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf.

Growing up, I was always involved in the deaf community.

Before working with Deaf West, I had never met a deaf person, and now I can't imagine life without ASL.

I was very shy. I didn't really hang around with hearing people very much. Mostly I had deaf friends.

Growing up, I never thought about becoming an actress because I never saw deaf people in TV or movies. I didn't think it was possible.

I'm really excited to educate the world about what deaf people can do.

I think we really do need deaf people out there writing their own shows.