Quotes About Inclusion

It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.

Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.

When I talk about feminism, sometimes I feel like being a black woman is cast aside.

I often feel failed by feminism.

SXSW can feel very male, very straight, and very white, and though it's a great festival, when you have a film that's different, it's hard to find your place.

I do work with a lot of women in my company, and I write a lot of roles for women over 40. I think, in 'Feud' alone, we have 15 roles for women over 40, which I'm very proud about.

This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come - this is why so many women, particularly women of colour, feel alienated from mainstream western academic feminism. Because don't we want it to be mainstream?

Aladdin' was one of the few things that I watched as a kid where I was like, 'Oh, that guy looks like me and has a similar culture to mine.'

There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.

I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which is bring everybody together in the same room.

In the U.S. Senate, I'll fight discrimination everywhere it exists.

When I was younger... we used to go to this place called Rexall to play 'Street Fighter.' At Rexall, there would be different people from different hoods there playing the game. It was the one place that was like an equalizer. It was just about how good you were at 'Street Fighter.'

Saying 'black lives matter' both literally and figuratively restores people's dignity.

Get things right for disabled people and you get it right for all, for the whole of society. Not just figuratively, but in reality.

We figured out as a community of gay people, we have to take care of our own.

If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live?

I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.

How often, really, do you get a Filipino story line in a show? Not very often. I can't think of any.

You rarely see a Filipino family on TV.

Women in Film and Television is such an important body.

Although I'm aware of how under-represented we are, I sometimes forget how desperately Arabs who aren't in the film business wish for better stories about us.