Quotes About Inclusion

I don't see a lot of narratives written where a woman who looks like me gets to be beautiful and sexualized and upwardly mobile, middle-class, funny, quirky. They're very seldom written.

A lot of times, black people were extremely cool, and that's how we've been commodified in TV and film. But now we're starting to see an upswing of material where we're like, 'It's cool to be quirky and weird and smart.'

We budget quite a bit of money every year in order to assist people who are migrating here, people who are trying to enter into our society and be a part of the American dream.

Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.

Truth: I loathe the idea of being hired because of my gender, and I shudder at the thought that one day I show up on set, and half of the crew thinks, 'Here comes the quota hire.'

I eventually just imagined being a little boy who was quote unquote 'normal': who could learn like all the kids around me that I felt excluded from. And I imagined myself into one of these and into someone who could read.

I'm a proud member of the rabble.

No matter what race or color you are, you can aspire to do something great.

We need to stop judging individuals based on their race, profession, gender, religion, or anything other than their own individual behavior and character.

I'm mixed race, and it's often hard for me to fit into period pieces.

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.

I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat.

I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race.

I was really grateful that The Vixen, especially, was on season 10 because she was having conversations about race. You can't ignore it, especially in the drag community, in the 'Drag Race' world.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

No single race has a monopoly on racism.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating - is this the exact right mix? I think that's - to me it's anti-comedy. It's more about PC-nonsense.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

The work that needs to be done now is to diversify the picture of LGBTQ people so that people can see that we come from all races, different genders; we have trans people.