Quotes About Inclusion

America used to say that hip-hop was a cancer. Then it embraced that cancer and realized, 'Hey, this isn't a bad thing. It is part of us, just more America.'

I think hip-hop doesn't give women as much of a chance as it gives guys.

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

I am an affirmative action hire.

In all cases, I will always hire the best person for the job, and it just so happens that many of those are women.

We need clubs to take risks to hire the right candidates. At the end of the day, there aren't a lot of female coaches that have the top-level license and the coaching experience but that will change.

In addition we also hire many senior citizens.

If you don't want a female coach, don't hire one!

To anyone in the position to hire women directors: Make the commitment.

If somebody's in the community doing cool stuff, we'll hire them.

Women have to write for each other; we have to hire each other.

I think there's a reason why some companies have such dismal records. It's not because they're clueless; it's because they systematically don't want to hire women.

Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to hire them.

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

I've been on predominantly 'white' shows before, and I had also been on predominantly 'black' shows. I would complain that when I was on a white show, they would only hire me because there was a black character or they needed a black voice. But then I would be mad if they went and hired a white dude in my position.

It's important to push the agenda of hiring women directors.

If you exclude your talent base from the benefits of hiring and deploying and making women successful, you're going to do less well than businesses that do a better job on that front.

If you are in a hiring position, hire someone that is nothing like you. We keep looking for the commonalities, but find someone with commonalities that are nothing like you.

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.

More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.

It's kind of heartbreaking when I talk about it now, I still get very moved by the lack of opportunities that were available to myself and to the very few others who were Hispanic young actresses.

Asian Americans are the same as African American, Hispanic Americans, anyone: we deserve to be respected, too.

I don't think that being Hispanic, being black, being white - I don't think that limits you to anything. I think everyone should just go for what they want.