Quotes About Inclusion

When I arrived at Middlesex I was the only guy who'd been to public school and I got plenty of stick. But it wasn't held against me for long.

Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.

I hope that folks that look like me, regardless candidly of their political affiliation, not only look at me and say that, you know, I want to vote for him at the ballot box, but also make the decision that perhaps they want to put their name up for public service and for public office.

Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.

One of the very first fashion features where I appeared without my prosthetic legs was in ELLE magazine's publication, 'Gold Rush.'

I was able to come out as gay publicly because my family had accepted me. They thought nothing of it, and without them I wouldn't have been able to do it. If I didn't have them in my life I would have felt like I had no one.

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

For the most part, it's straight white men running these labels and publishing companies.

If you go to a big publishing house, editorial aside, it's completely white.

Cubans have no bar to being legalized once they are in America. All other Hispanics - with the exception of Puerto Ricans - have to go through a broken, dysfunctional process. One group is American from day one. And all the rest are trying to be.

I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands.

I am a Puerto Rican. I could have been born on the moon, but I'm still Puerto Rican.

I'm half Puerto Rican.

I'm Puerto Rican, but I represent everybody.

As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.

You're not from Puerto Rico, so you should say Puerto Rico like all the other people from the place that you come from.

Since its inception, the American nation has had on its official seal the following motto: 'e pluribus unum,' which in Latin means, 'from the many, one.' That would change dramatically if Puerto Rico were to become a state.

My grandfather was extremely dark and from Puerto Rico, but his brother had blond hair and blue eyes. There are so many different shades, and I think Hollywood has yet to realize that.

Whenever you have the creator pulling your card and saying they want you to be a part of it, you're in a pretty good position.

Non-disabled actors should not still be playing disabled characters in 2020. We're better than that. It's frankly offensive and archaic and it makes me so angry I want to punch a wall.

Saying gay people shouldn't be the punchline is basically saying don't make people the punch line, which I think is ridiculous. The whole point of comedy is, on some level, to make fun of ourselves and put everything into an absurdist context.