Quotes About Inclusion

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

Pot lucks are fun, especially when you encourage your guests to bring dishes that represent their families or cultures.

You cannot collectively, as a society, decide that you are only going to represent one part of a minority. It's like saying you've represented black people on television because you aired an episode of the 'Cosbys.'

If I'm privileged to be elected, I'd be blessed to represent a diverse district, including South Asians and Indian Americans.

Since girls and women represent 50 percent of the world population, enabling them to participate in their local economies helps broaden the employment pool.

I want to represent my color and ethnicity. To be proud of our heritages is really cool.

Those who promote hatred, bigotry, and fear do not represent America and do not represent us.

The Olympics is a cool opportunity to represent our country, which is amazing. But I have another community I am competing for, and that is the LGBT community.

I think the people that we hire in government should be just as diverse as the communities we represent.

I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.

It's hard to accept yourself when you live in a world where nobody is like you, or you feel like nobody is like you because there's no representation.

There's so little representation of people who look like me behind the camera that it makes you want to say yes to any opportunity out of desperation. It puts you in a situation where you can't make your best work. Diversity for cheap.

New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

A diverse elite may be good in its own right, as a matter of justice and representation. But nothing about being a woman or a minority makes you immune to meritocracy's ruthless solipsism.

In a democracy, there should be representation from every field.

I am so passionate about representation because, growing up, I didn't see myself, and now people can say, 'I see myself there.' We're all trying to find where we are.

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Representation makes a difference.

I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.

To represent the nation, you must have multiracial representation.

There's so much talk of representation in politics and entertainment - it's everywhere - but I didn't realize representation was important until really my senior year of high school.

It's important to be able to have representation for black queer women, because I feel like there's not much representation for them in the mainstream.

I'm tired of cookie-cutter monolithic representation of black folks.