Quotes About Inclusion

When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.

You will always have politics being pushed towards multiracial politics because you have to field a team.

Trans folk are so often pushed to the margins and not afforded the resources and opportunities that some nontrans people are.

I just think it's so much more rewarding and important to go around the world and bring people together as opposed to pushing people away.

We are not in a situation where the minorities are demanding something and the majorities are pushing back saying 'We don't want it.'

We have to open hearts and change minds while at the same time pushing for laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination.

I'm not foreign enough to play foreigners... I have sort of a mid-Atlantic British accent that puts me in the middle of everything, so they don't know quite where to put me.

Sometimes America is so great because it brings all of us together, but sometimes it can be so limiting because it puts labels on things.

I certainly believe in a type of Rooney Rule - in legislation that doesn't give black and ethnic individuals a job but, at least, puts them in the frame.

I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.

We must formulate policies to allow everyone to have the same opportunities in life and fix our broken society too.

Being a gay American, I know what it means to look at the flag and not have it protect all of your liberties.

The people that don't want change, the ones that don't see how removing Confederate flag creates so much more opportunities for our sport to grow - they don't want our sport to grow.

I never came across a character who was brilliant, funny, flawed and just happened to have a disability. That's why I've written 'The Amazing Edie Eckhart.'

When I first started, it was so male-heavy, so male-dominated, that on the 18th floor of the criminal courts building, which was where I worked, there were three men's bathrooms and only one women's bathroom.

You can feel the drums, and you can feel the bass. So, being able to feel the music through the floor, it makes me feel like I'm a part of the band and not just the only person in the room who doesn't really understand what's going on.

I like how in little league they have nine kids who play the field but we have 17 kids on the roster and all 17 kids should hit. I like that we do that down here in Florida.

I remember getting flowers and champagne for being one of the first black artists on MTV. That was a big deal.

I am Chinese. I speak fluent Mandarin. And I go, 'Man, it's about time a Chinese person could step up to a Hollywood screen, and international screen, and help save the world.'

Films with predominantly white casts can come in any form, tell any story, big or small. For black films, you have the light, fluffy rom-coms or 'Madea' movies, and then you have the black-torture awards movie.

When it comes to fitting in, I think I'm really fly. It's not really hard; I'm just being myself.

Parts that are desexed, matronly - to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

Paralympics has always had to push the media into it being about sport and not focusing on the disability.

Black folk have been 'the other' in shows and movies and in life for quite a long time. Not from our perspective, we're not 'the other,' but from other people's perspective we have been 'the other.'