Quotes About Inclusion

There still aren't many black women on prime-time TV. Times are changing, but it's interesting: we're in 2013 and still experiencing firsts... Hopefully, in the next 100 years, things will balance even more.

Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.

Hopefully, in not a too distant future, we will see a Latino president, and who knows how's that going to happen. It's just a matter of time.

Hopefully, it gets to a point where, down the line, people don't have to come out.

I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.

There's no weightlifting event in Palaro, that's why I'm going here, hoping they consider including weightlifting again.

I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And horrifying to me.

I just wanted to be a part of something that's a horror movie that scares you.

James J. Dillon was as much of a part of The Horseman as anyone of us.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Even though I didn't write 'Shaun Of The Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' I never felt left out of the creative process.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.

I was raised in a black household and grew up with black homies.

Being someone that grew up in a biracial household I never really felt accepted by black people when I was a little kid, I didn't feel fully accepted by black kids and I definitely didn't feel fully accepted by white kids cause I just felt like I could never be neither one.

I have the ability and the will to lead San Francisco in building more housing. Without it, people like me who grew up in San Francisco, and people who came here for the values we embrace will simply not be able to stay.

There is no monolithic black culture. It's completely different for someone born in Harlem to someone born in Houston or London with one exception, which is that people contributing to black culture have the experience of being black.

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

I know growing up as a young gay person how much you hate yourself, how much you already think you're different.

Atlanta's the hub of black culture, and it's OK to be you there - it's the city that really shaped me to be who I am.

It's always good when you're in a place where they really want you. That makes a huge difference.