Quotes About Inclusion

White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.

The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

Any party that writes off 25, 30, 35 percent of the American people is not going to be a winner.

You can't be said to have properly established yourself in a place until you have been seen there.

Also, it was fun just being part of a new group. Group membership makes people feel closer and brings a significant boost in personal confidence and happiness.

Concern for Others Loophole: We tell ourselves that we're acting out of consideration for others and making generous, unselfish decisions. Or we decide we must do something in order to fit into a social situation.

Bæir á borð við Sjöundá. Við getum ekki látið það komast upp í vana, að því fólki, sem á einhvern hátt er til óþæginda, sé lógað heima.

Les Grecs alignèrent sur des rangs parallèles leurs tentes de peaux; les Ibériens disposèrent en cercle leurs pavillons de toile; les Gaulois se firent des baraques de planches; les Libyens des cabanes de pierres sèches, et les Nègres creusèrent dans le sable avec leurs ongles des fosses pour dormir. Beaucoup, ne sachant où se mettre, erraient au milieu des bagages [...]

No self-respecting right-wing populist movement in India can succeed without targeting the Muslims as alien to the nation.

However much anodyne talk there is of one's kind , a society that is racist is a society that cannot accept itself, that hates part of itself so deeply that it cannot see, does not want to see - because of its spiritual and political nullity and inanition - how much people have in common with each other.

Voor een organisatie die functioneert volgens de principes 'wie niet ingesloten is, is uitgesloten' en 'wie niet met mij is, is tegen mij' verliest de wereld in haar geheel elke nuance, elke differentiatie en elke pluraliteit.

Heterosexuals and homosexuals are considered different because they can be divided into two groups on the basis of the belief that they can be divided into two groups.

Locker rooms are not, in actual fact, the secret clubhouses of the Effortlessly Thin Women's Fat-Lady Harassment Society.

Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he was the last to be cast and the tin had run out. Still, there he stood, just as steadfast on his one leg as the others on their two; and he is the tin soldier we are going to hear about.

They needed some Jews or gays or something to spice things up, to add a bit of theater and a couple of interesting bistros.

There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.

I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can't see, and it's not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life in some way in order for it to be on your radar.

We're so lucky where we live, but we're so out of touch. Everyone's mindset is made to feel that refugees are a problem, but it's more than that. They're human beings, too. They were forced from their homes.

For once in my life, I wanted to flaunt my Asian side instead of hiding it to fit as somebody else... 'Crazy Rich Asians' made me want to get in touch with my roots, instead of running away from them.

When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'

When I get to meet my audience when I go speak at colleges or when I'm walking down the street, it's been really eye-opening how many people have been touched to see someone that looks like them on television.