Quotes About Inclusion

Because the thing you learn as a hugely ambitious Indian is that you're often going to be the only Indian in the room, so you'd better get used to it.

I pretended I belonged.

But it happens mostly because "being American" means "being white," even for a brown boy like me.

We have three kinds of family 1.Those we are born to 2.Those who are born to us 3.And those we let into our hearts ?

we have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.

Baby, I ain't trash. Trash is something you throw away. My people keep me.

Yeah, well, I guess I feel like all of us misfits need to hang together. At least that way we don't swing along. (Tabitha)

I figure all of us misfits should hang together, that way we don't swing alone…

In case you haven't noticed, there's not a plethora of engineers here. (Devyn) Plethora? What kind of girl word is that? (Sway)

It was one of the few places where someone remembered his name. Yeah, okay, so he felt like Sam Malone on Cheers, but there was no Norm or Cliff sitting at the bar here. More like Spike and Switchblade.' (Wulf)

I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am the only girl among boys.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

We deserve quality lives with equality.

As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you 'can only take in small doses.'

This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.

Sometimes in real life, people can be a bit too unaccepting.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

I needed to stop forcing myself to fit into something I could never be a part of.

And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.

Individuals are labeled "different," "geeky," "abnormal," or even "Aspergian" or "autistic" at a young age. Among other things, these labels suggest that the people around them—their family, friends, teachers, and counselors—can't relate to their actions and expressions.