Quotes About Inclusion

It's weird because I see black gay characters on television all the time, but do I relate to them? Not always, because they're set pieces.

I am an 'other.' As a queer, biracial man who occupies and embodies many different intersections of 'otherness,' I've spent my entire life seeking reflections of myself in the world around me to connect and relate to.

Seeing someone that you can relate to in the media is everything as a child, and a lot of people are not granted that luxury.

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

It is very, very important that people understand that you can tell different kinds of stories, and they do, related to gay and lesbian issues - especially when you know the people behind them.

I don't believe we ought to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. If people are in a same-sex relationship, and they want their partner to be able to have health benefits or be designated as a beneficiary in your life insurance, there's no reason we shouldn't do that.

'The Room' is relationships. The room is you and me and everyone in America. That's basically what 'The Room' is.

It's important to tell queer stories and to show queer relationships in a very normal setting.

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

There was never a perception that I was second-class relative to boys. That gave me confidence.

Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'

I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

Today, it seems almost everyone knows a friend or relative who is gay.

The relative lack of power of certain minority groups, and the fear they're feeling in the wake of Donald Trump's election, is something I think we really need to take a look at.

It seems you can ask any friend, any relative, and they'll be able to tell you about someone they know with autism.

It's relatively easy to adopt kids if you're not trying to get kids that look exactly like you.

As for me I may not have relatives in the film industry. But I grew up in Mumbai as an avid moviegoer. So I don't feel like an outsider.

People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.

We should release films without revealing the director's name, as his or her gender would not be a barometer to watch those films.

Disability should not be considered a hindrance to achieving one's goals.

The real Hindu vision is that nobody will be discriminated against or favoured. Everyone is equal.

One has to inculcate a feeling that if I build a road, then a Hindu or a Muslim or a Parsi or a Christian can walk on that road. We all have equal right to share water, electricity, or road.

A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid who grew up listening to predominantly hip-hop. I will talk about hip-hop as the music I grew up listening to, and I think sometimes people like to put it as, 'Oh, well, he's talking about black things.' And, yeah, they are, but that's my American identity.