Quotes About Inclusion

I want to see women of African descent shine.

I want women and girls of African descent and of color to be able to not have to keep searching for stories about themselves.

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

We're all created equal, and we all deserve an equal shot.

We deserve the same things that cis women do, the same things that other humans do, from our social lives to our families to love.

My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself.

I think a lot of us women feel like we deserve to play on the big courts in front of a big crowd as well.

People with disabilities are capable and deserve the same opportunities as everyone else.

Doesn't everyone in life deserve a chance to show what they can do?

Everyone deserves music.

For me, it's simple: everybody deserves the same rights.

Everybody deserves to be seen and to be heard. Regardless of whether that is your culture, your language, who you love, your ability, or the way you chose to live your life, everybody deserves to be seen and be heard.

We are all deserving of love.

Design is people.

I want to see designers capitalize on a beauty that is not only white. I need them to stop acting like beautiful black and brown women do not exist.

I have so many friends who are designers of color.

Designers have always fawned over my skin, especially Tarun Tahiliani. I've definitely felt accepted brown skin and all. But fair girls like Shivani Kapoor were as loved too.

As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American experience, it's probably even more important for black people to have that expanded view.

My father was desperately trying to be a legal contributor to this society.

If all the people of this country, black and white alike, are to enter fully into our national story, as I desperately hope they will, they must do so on terms of reciprocity.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

It's detrimental not to support marriage equality, even just on a financial level.

When I was 12, I was told I couldn't play with the boys anymore, and I was devastated.