Quotes About Inclusion

Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

I had a lot of difficulty growing up in a society where everything is very closed-minded, especially with beauty.

The difficulty of being Afro-Latina, in general, is the lack of acceptance in both communities.

I'll continue working to ensure that everyone - regardless of their background - is treated with the dignity and respect that they deserve.

I think everyone deserves dignity.

I support equal rights and equal dignity for all.

We have given a government where people feel safe... we gave Dalits a life of dignity.

When you cast cross-racially, another dimension is added.

Every WP member can bring in a member of any race and religion. I think it's probably healthy we do it that way rather than play up the racial dimension too much.

When male allies make space for women, they're not diminishing their own power. Rather, they're enhancing everyone's.

I never want to set a belief that a woman has to direct a woman's film, meaning she can't direct a man's film. If only films can be directed by people who are exactly the same as that, it's only gonna limit all of the women more.

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.

The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch?

I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.

Sport is important for children, especially from disadvantaged places, to bring up their self esteem.

The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character.

I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people.

If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation for trouble.

It's important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when we market the films, but obviously we don't discriminate. So our crew and our cast, the beliefs don't really matter.

No one should discriminate.

We do not have the right to discriminate against people.