Quotes About Inclusion

The mainstream needs Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell. The mainstream needs RuPaul.

Until I really accepted this about myself and got over any of my own transphobia that I had, I really felt like I wouldn't be accepted. I thought I would ruin my life.

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.

For me it's hard, especially being a young African-American woman. My dad doesn't look like what you might call the 'safe' African-American male that America would accept, if you know what I mean.

We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are.

I am tired of starring in those films where I am being a part just for the sake of it.

It's important that everyone rows in the same direction because I need all my players, those who don't get much playing time too.

You know, I think when I was young, I was just always worried about how I was going to fit in, what I needed to do to be better. I think now, as you get older, you kind of think more as a team concept of, 'How do I get everyone on the same page?'

Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie.

All Blaxploitation is, is the opportunity for an African-American cast or lead actor or actress to do the same things that a white action hero gets to do.

You see all these movies of white men saving the world all the time.

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

When people ask me what I do, I tell them that I 'do things in front of people.' I don't know why I do what I do. I've tried working behind the scenes. I felt left out!

Everybody can be who they are within the scheme of the Seahawks and what we want to do.

I want to see more sports in schools.

In sci-fi, the Black guys always die. So, it's extremely important to bring African-American characters to the genre and not have them killed.

I want to see more sci-fi with black people.

I want to make everyone believe that they can understand math and science.

Girls need to see somebody that looks like them talking about science and technology.

But I don't see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.

I'm not a scientist or a mathematician.

Women scientists' hands are like every other woman's hands.

There's not many people that look like me in Scotland.

I've always been a bit scared to say that I'm Scottish because it's almost as if people wouldn't believe me or people wouldn't buy that from me, or people wouldn't accept it. And so now I think nobody has got the right to tell you what you are. You just are who you are.