Quotes About Inclusion

You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.

I hang out with everyone from Long Island. I'm friends with everyone from Long Island.

I can hang out with all my boyfriend's friends. I know how to roll with the guys.

The popular girls let me hang out with them because I was funny. They told me that. 'You're not popular, but you're funny.' Now all my friends are funny.

I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.

There's no conversation happening between plus-size women and designers. The door is never open.

I just feel like a Filipina, a Filipino woman, and it just so happens that when I was growing up, I was very much an Australian, and I think you can be both.

I am always happiest in an ensemble.

I've had lots of opportunities to do things I'm passionate about and the things I care about and I feel that I can live in a world that doesn't really accept people that are different happily.

I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.

It's hard to be what you can't see.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

It's actually one of the hardest things for trans people, is to go to the bathroom.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

This world belongs to all of us, and all sexes should be able to live in respect and harmony.

I've never bothered about my color. I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe. I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

We are a society that really worked to leave our differences behind, and value equality. All these things actually make a community live in harmony.

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'

The casting process starts off really scary, especially when you're trying to find a Harriet Tubman.

If you're going to have a Hall of Fame, you've got to have Owen Hart in the Hall of Fame.

Coming to Harvard was an eye-opening experience because there's so much diversity on campus.

I can say with confidence that my trans/transfeminine identity emerges as the most heavily problematized aspect of my lived experience. My transness is not a problem on its own but problematized by a society that reviles it, hates it, fails to understand it - or does not wish to.

Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'

The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.