Quotes About Inclusion

I am not afraid to play Latin roles - that was a big part of my life.

It's not enough for Hollywood to make a bunch of gay movies. That's obviously a big part of the equation, but then gay people have to show up for those movies.

I have a big problem with cis straight men. I'm sort of discriminatory against them and it's going to take work for me to find a way to build a relationship with those people and trust that those people can be allies.

One of the big problems in Dail Eireann is the lack of women.

A big thing in the LGBTQ community is finding family because some of us have loving families and some of us really don't, so we have to go out there and make our own families.

I believe that the sport of football has set itself up to be in a position where it shows itself in the bigger picture to not really care about women - they don't really care about people of color, but we won't get into that for NFL either - but as a woman I feel like a person who has been marginalized.

The biggest mistake we can make is to box people out - tell them, 'You're wrong, you're racist, you don't belong in the conversation.'

Competition's always good, but the biggest thing I like about coach Saban is that he gives everybody the opportunity to play.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

What 'Billions' does so brilliantly is they just make it a non-issue. Damien Lewis' character says, 'Those are the pronouns you use? Great, let's get down to business. How can you make me money?'

I don't think it's accepted naturally to be bisexual, especially as a woman.

Bisexuality is normal in our society.

I'm not black myself, but my sons are.

We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.

Binaries, whether it's 'man' or 'woman,' or 'black' and 'white,' were created to separate us. So without binary, there is only 'us,' which makes us all equal.

I still enjoy a lot of support from the black community.

I wanted to make a movie about a black family in Middle America. I wanted to make a film where everyone can look at them and say, 'This is my family.'

It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.

I went to school in the 70s and the 80s, and the last thing I expected of my schools back then was that they would be the places in which I would be taught about black history.

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

I went to white schools and I didn't know anything about black history.

What 'March' is saying is that it doesn't matter whether we are black or white, Latino or Asian. It doesn't matter whether we are straight or gay.