Quotes About Inclusion

I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.

When I discovered Special Olympics and saw how it integrates these athletes into programs that change the whole way they see themselves and how they perform, it blew my mind. I wanted to be involved.

I love that we've chipped away at the celluloid closet and have wonderful programs that feature gay and lesbian characters in really rich, fully developed ways.

When I started Black Girls Code in 2011, there weren't any programs that had a foundation in communities of color to teach our kids about technology.

We need good reading programs, and we need equity in schools.

I've been involved with disability activities for over 40 years. I have done programs with several disabled children and involving them makes the performance genuinely heartwarming.

No one can say that democratizing financial services is bad. It is good for communities, countries, the global economy, and educational progress.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

I understand and appreciate and respect that any time a barrier is broken or history is made, people want to celebrate it and mark it as progress.

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.

I'm a Palestinian-Muslim, but I'm also a progressive.

Every time I go to these racial forums, it is people who are alike, or it is progressives and liberals. So I said, 'At some point, we've got to bring the progressives and the liberals and the conservatives together.'

It's not enough just to elect people of color and women of color and progressives. We need to make sure that they have a work plan and that they are - continue to align with the communities that helped get them to where they're at.

I like to be very involved in any project that I am doing.

People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.

There are many projects I couldn't get off the ground because they didn't have white heroes. It's a problem that everyone who's been working in Hollywood has been facing.

Should 50 per cent of Telefilm's projects be helmed, produced, or written by women? I think so.

For me, I actively look for projects that showcase people of color.

In order for a person of color to get on a cover of a magazine, they have to do something prolific - winning an Oscar, being the first billionaire, you know, or whatever. I think it's becoming more natural that somebody can get on the cover of a magazine just because they're an amazing person. That's what it should be.