Quotes About Inclusion

What could be more normal than to be out of place everywhere you go? What could be more American?

Why the gay press doesn't review your books? They don't? They don't, Arthur. Don't pretend you haven't noticed. You're not in the cannon.

Sir, I hope you feel safe here.

What could be more normal than to be out of place everywhere you go?

Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of these experiences can isolate those who are affected, together they compose an aggregate of millions whose struggles connect them profoundly. The exceptional is ubiquitous; to be entirely typical is the rare and lonely state.

If we tolerate prejudice toward any group, we tolerate it toward all groups," he said. "I couldn't have relationships that were conditional on excluding my brother—or anyone else. We are all in one fight, and our freedom is all the same freedom.

Belonging is one of the things that makes life bearable, and it can be tough to look at a binary world and choose against both sides.

I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity.

when describing children with Down's Syndrome, he called a child 'heart spontaneous'.

I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity. I don't wish for anyone in particular to be gay

You can't fit in with people by pretending to be just like they are; you fit in by engaging in a dialogue about your differences, and by putting aside the assumption that your way of life is in any way preferable to theirs.

Some kinds of grace would not have entered the world if everyone's hips and legs worked the same way. Deformity has been brought into beauty's fold, a catalyst for justice rather than an affront to it.

At least half of the children available for adoption in the United States have disabilities of some kind.

People with disabilities make up the largest minority in America; they constitute 15 percent of the population though only 15 percent of those were born with their disability and about a third are over sixty-five…

I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get tired of embodying that diversity. I don't wish for anyone in particular to be gay, but the idea of no one being gay makes me miss myself already.

So the question is whether people prefer to be marginal in a mainstream world, or mainstream in a marginal world, and many people quite understandably prefer the latter.

Ability is a tyranny of the majority. If most people could flap their arms and fly, the inability to do so would be a disability.

We are all differently abled from one another, and context—which is socially constructed—often decides what will be protected and indulged.

Status is about counting, numbering, ranking and ultimately about excluding.

The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.

Just because there is one bad apple in the barrow, does not mean all the apples are bad. If you dig into the barrow, it is guaranteed to have a few apples that are not spoiled.

God. I couldn't have stood another minute of it. Straight people are so depressing.

I didn't think they liked women in a place like this." Jack guided her to a barstool. "Oh, they're friendly enough. They know you wouldn't be here if you weren't gay. They figure, you leave them alone and they'll leave you alone.

Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose.