Quotes About Inclusion

I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining.

When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American - that immediate feeling of loneliness happens.

Doors have an immediate familiarity. They're everywhere. They're scaled to our bodies, so there's something human about them.

As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.

We just need more complex, important roles that tell our experiences as an immigrant; as someone with an accent, but also American; but also someone who's second or third-generation American, born and raised here who actually don't speak any language other than English.

It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an immigrant nation.

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.

Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks out of a job search for community.

Immigrant communities have been genuinely accepted in London.

To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to it.

As an immigrant, I have lived, in a way, the American dream, and I want to make sure that opportunity is available for everybody.

I want to present the immigrant community in more of a real light.

We've got to do everything we can to speak to and protect our immigrant communities.

Immigrant stories are good stories for everyone to know.

I was one of the only children having an immigrant father in my elementary school.

There are few countries in the world where you can go in one generation from immigrant to parliamentarian.

We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.

America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.

We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

Who is anyone to say who doesn't deserve to come to this country? I'm a mutt, we're all mutts. Immigrants from whatever country are humans, we have to help each other.

America has long been the land of immigrants.