Quotes About Inclusion

What we need to focus on is not that we're not nominated, but that we have many more Latinos that are in prominent positions on shows all across the dial than ever before.

Of course, I'm all for women getting to play prominent parts.

When Ellen came out on national television, it was the first time I'd ever seen an LGBT woman represented in such a prominent way.

I've always been very passionate about trying to have Asian-Americans or Asian faces be more prominent in mainstream media.

There are certain directors who just don't cast diversely in prominent roles. Ever. Often it's just because they don't have a diverse social circle, so they don't think of black or brown people as husbands, best friends, bosses.

Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.

I'm excited about Los Angeles because I believe in her. I believe in her destiny. I think that the fact that we have so many different people from so many parts of the world is a big reason why L.A. is the city of America's promise.

I promise that I will no longer use the word 'homosexual.'

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

It's important to me to reach deep into the community and promote Latino artists.

We've come a long way, but we've still got a long way to go, so we need to give our time to promote the game and be role models - to make the next generation see us and want to become us.

To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys.

Anytime you give a trans person an opportunity, especially an opportunity to be ourselves, you are promoting a shift in the way society sees us.

As equalities minister, I am responsible for promoting equality of opportunity for everyone.

My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.

I am proof that, as Americans, we can embrace our differences.

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is.

A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It's important to be able to propose new ways and new sounds without being stigmatised, censored or put aside.

There is more equity now in movies and TV, although I think its mostly because of changing demographics. It's not a moral proposition. It's good business. Shows about people of all colors are making money.

I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.