Quotes About Inclusion

Jobs in technology have the rapidest rate of growth. The need for computer science is so incredibly large, and it's important that girls of all colors have the opportunity to move into that field.

There's so much black content on multiple platforms, and it's all getting great ratings. If you think about the Oscars snubbing 'Straight Outta Compton,' in a way, that kicked all of this off.

I didn't grow up seeing faces of patriots, emotional and raw and gritty, who looked like me.

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.

Economic growth is the key. Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal.

We've got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.

I feel proud when a player from Jammu and Kashmir plays for India. This shows cricket has reached all corners of the country.

By the time I reached middle school, I fully identified myself not even as biracial but just as black.

The most important thing will be when we actually stop talking about sexual orientation. The moment we reach that point when that is not important any more, we've reached a big goal which is a long way in front of us.

A lot of times I've reached my hand out to people in the gay community that just didn't have nobody to help them when they were down and out.

The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on.

Any claim that our fighting forces are not reaching their maximum potential because females are not included is absurd.

I try to bring all that I am to my work and all that I experience. That includes how people react to the way I am - the prejudice and the celebrations.

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

For readers of color, and especially black readers, black girls, I just want them to feel seen. And not just seen - I want them to feel epic and know that they are epic.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'

I'm very passionate about music and was excited to see that the majority of readers loved the inclusion of lyrics.

I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.

If our culture is so often readily and easily appropriated, imagine what happens when we embrace our full blackness and know that our contributions are just as important to the shaping of the country and, more broadly, the world.

All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.

I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends.

The motto of my institute has always been, 'If they can see it, they can be it.' And it's literally true. If we show something on-screen, it will change what happens in real life.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.