Quotes About Inclusion

If people can understand me and accept me as a woman, I'm going to get booked for more jobs.

It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.

If you're going to put me in the booth, make sure it's because I'm good enough to be there.

I was born in the U.S. This is my country.

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

I think most people write from what they see in their own world, which is maybe why we so often see an African-American woman as the best friend, or the one you bring in when you need some sass. It's like we're put in a box.

Black women in music are always expected to sing R&B or soul: we are always boxed in.

Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole.

People will sometimes put each other in boxes and have biases toward one another because of what they look like or where they come from or who they are. But ultimately, it's up to us to decide who we are.

Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

After a game is over, having my boyfriend wait for me in the family room, just like everyone else's loved one and not having to hide that. That feeling is so awesome. Incredible feeling. Absolutely incredible feeling.

As citizens, I'm asking you not to leave any child behind. I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave, so that every child knows that their future matters and their dreams are possible.

Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

Nobody is totally white in Brazil.

I don't want to be 'de-ethnicised.' I hate it when people say, 'Oh I don't even think of you as a woman,' or, 'I don't even think of you as a black woman.' Well what do you think of me as then? A loaf of bread?

There are constant challenges about what's 'mainstream.' These kids in 'Dope' are as mainstream as the kids in 'Superbad' or 'The Breakfast Club.'

I feel like breaking barriers is necessary because man created barriers, which keep us separated as human beings.

Girls are breaking barriers and boundaries every day in everything from sports and science to business and the creative arts.

I try to bring awareness, not just to CP but to all disabilities in the sense that it's knowledge. My disability gave me so much knowledge that I was able to take into 'Breaking Bad' and to grow and to learn.

I think art breaks down otherness.

Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself.

I still remember my days in Komarock estate, the days when it was all normal, and even though I am born and bred in Belgium, I could easily fit in and feel like any other Kenyan.