Quotes About Inclusion

When you belonged nowhere, you sort of belonged everywhere.

She was already lost - she couldn't really get more lost, could she? When you belonged nowhere, you sort of belonged everywhere

EARLIER IMMIGRANTS WERE CHAMPS AT ASSIMILATION

I wondered what being the only black student in your grade would feel like. I guessed it would feel no different from being the only anything in your grade. I was the only one in our grade with seven brothers and sisters, including 10-year-old triplets. But I knew that wasn't quite the same. The kids couldn't tell that just by looking at me, but Jessica's coffee-colored skin was there for the world to see.

Jenny didn't know how to share. She wouldn't cooperate with the other children. She said she wanted to play by herself, but when the other kids left her alone, she complained bitterly. "Nobody likes me," she wailed. She was sitting at a picnic table making a get-well card. She lowered her head onto her arm, the picture of despair.

Jessi shot Mallory a sidelong glance. She remembered how Mal had celebrated Kwanzaa with the Ramseys the year before. The memory made something inside her tighten with sadness.

Jake and I hung out in the living room and heard snatches of conversation. Just as she was about to hang up, Jake called out, "Can he come over?" "Excuse me," Mrs. Kuhn said into the phone. She covered the receiver and asked Jake, "You mean, now?" "Yeah!" Jake replied. Logan must have heard through her palm, because Mrs. Kuhn smiled and said, "It's all right with him." "It's all right with me, too," I added.

There was no way Swanilda could have been black

one hider and all the other players are seekers. When a seeker finds the hider, he doesn't just win that round of the game, he hides with him. The next person to find the hiders hides with them, too, and so on until one seeker is left. That seeker is the loser and starts out the next round of the game as the hider. The tricky thing when you're the hider is finding a big enough hiding place in which to fit a whole lot of other people.

SUMMER PLAY GROUP

Ann M. Martin

eyes slant, Claud.

No wicked stepfamilies here!

Jessi is the only black student in the sixth grade)

And then came the insight that irrevocably transformed my sense of how good human life could be. I was feeling boundless love for one of my best friends, and I suddenly realized that if a stranger had walked through the door at that moment, he or she would have been fully included in this love. Love was at bottom impersonal—and deeper than any personal history could justify. Indeed, a transactional form of love—I love you because. . . —now made no sense at all.

ADVENIENT  (ADVE'NIENT)   adj.[adveniens, Lat.]Advening; coming from outward causes; superadded.

There were others like her. Of course there were. How had she ever thought there would not be?

But think of this: those of us who arrive in an academy that was not shaped by or for us bring knowledges, as well as worlds, that otherwise would not be here. Think of this: how we learn about worlds when they do not accommodate us. Think of the kinds of experiences you have when you are not expected to be here. These experiences are a resource to generate knowledge.

The more nots you are, the more committees you might end up on. Not being not can mean being less likely to end up doing this kind of work. Given that diversity work is typically less valued by organizations, then not being not can mean having more time to do more-valued work.

diversity management" becomes a way of managing or containing conflict or dissent.

Diversity workers could be described as institutional plumbers: they develop an expertise in how things get stuck, as well as where they get stuck.

of how diversity can be used by organizations as a form of public relations.

It is deemed more polite to assume you are white.

Peter shifted his backpack and crutches. He took a step toward the bus. Then he turned back. I'm family? That's as true a thing as I've ever known. Now get on that bus.