Quotes About Inclusion

Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.

I can't stand it when people get bullied or feel ugly or worthless.

When are we going to stop labeling everyone? How many times have I been referred to as 'out gay actor?' Do we say, 'out heterosexual actor' when we refer to Tom Hanks?

I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to represent all the Rogers out there who don't have a seat at the table. People of colour were not at the table, and now I am there, I want to change things.

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.

When we fail to include diverse, talented faces, reflecting both today and tomorrow's America, we send a poor message to our youth and the world.

I have a ton of guy friends who talk to me about their bodies, too. But boys are often left out of the body positivity conversation.

Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.

The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.

If you set a tone that you don't want people to be part of your team, they don't join.

There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.

The more normal it gets for people to see people of a gender or skin tone they wouldn't expect in jobs that they wouldn't expect, or speaking a way they wouldn't expect them to, the more it cultivates a sense that we share more than separates us.

I was re-watching 'E.T.' recently, and that scene where they're all around the pizza, bringing the pizza in, and gambling and stuff together, it's such an amazing tone, it's so rough, and nobody's really talking about anything, and it feels like you're in that room with them.

We need more women in higher roles, because the tone for sexual harassment would no doubt be different.

A gay person in office can set a tone, can command respect not only from the larger community but from the young people in our own community who need both examples and hope.

Much noise has been about size diversity but not enough about skin tone diversity. It's time for this to change.

Bullying about my skin tone probably started at nine years old and it was actually by the lighter-skinned black girls at school.

I have to say, when I watched 'Rogue One,' I got a little verklempt. I was like, 'Look at this motley crew of people, and the lead is a female, and the rest of the dudes are all kinds ethnicities and skin tones.'

Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue. That way, no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on.

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.