Quotes About Inclusion

We have people say, 'There's not enough women writers.' I have a writers room that is almost nothing but women over at 'Grey's Anatomy.'

Discomfort isn't grounds for discrimination. We have a big country with a lot of different kinds of people in it.

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.

I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.

The old approach of sacrificing the needs of one group to benefit another just won't work.

I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.

I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

I tend not to make fun of religious groups anywhere I play.

In America, aren't we all supposed to see beyond class, see beyond ethnicity? Are all these lines drawn to set us apart and lock us into groups?

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

There's no way you should try to send somebody back who came here as a child with their parents and who's grown up here in the United States. They're Americans.

I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life.

It is good for football that the game grows in new areas of the world.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.

When you play at City with top players, you don't have a guaranteed place in the starting eleven.

Women, for Gucci, as you can imagine, are very important.

It's quite hard sometimes coming into a show where everybody's quite cliquey, where everybody's been set for a number of years and you're the guest star. It's quite difficult, it's nervewracking in a way.

The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.

'Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing up.

I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black, white, gay?'

Whether they hail from different cultures, countries or faiths, children are children.