Quotes About Inclusion

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you. Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

if you were adopted, your parents chose you. Surprise pregnancies happen. But surprise adoptions? Never heard of one. Your parents could have picked a different gender, color, or ancestry. But they selected you. They wanted you in their family.

To accept God's grace is to accept God's offer to be adopted into his family.

She's an aristocrat who advocates –words worn across centuries—for women's rights.

As a child I was always borrowing other people's families, being invited for a week or a month in the summer to share a family life.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.

You are only free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

If the pretties were expected to make the supreme sacrifice in order to 'belong,' what could the unattractive female do?

Couples rarely know how much their togetherness shuts others out, and even if they did, there would be nothing they could do, save make everyone painfully self-conscious.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter their color; equal in importance no matter their texture.

Why did she want to go to sea and live the rough unglamorous life of a seaman? 'Because they told me Negro women couldn't get in the union. You know what I told them?' I shook my head, although I nearly knew. 'I told them, "You want to bet?" I'll put my foot in that door up to my hip until women of every color can walk over my foot, get in that union, get aboard a ship and go to sea.

The images had been provided by movies, books and Pathe News, and none included a six-foot tall Black woman hovering either in the back or in the foreground.

The variety of our skin tones can confuse, bemuse, delight, brown and pink and beige and purple, tan and blue and white. I

The eggs had withdrawn from the edge of the platter to bunch in the center like children left out in the cold. And the catheads had sat down on themselves with the conclusiveness of a fat woman sitting in an easy chair.

I believe that there lives a burning desire in the most sequestered private heart of every American, a desire to belong to a great counter.

Family isn't always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what.

People were those who lived on my side of town. I didn't like them all, or, in fact, any of them very much, but they were people. These others, the strange pale creatures that lived in their alien unlife, weren't considered Folks.

Watch for me and you will see That I'm present in the songs that children sing." People

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Bursting into parties to which I wasn't invited - but acting as if I had every right in the world to be there - is another one of my many gifts. It's basically all about confidence - and having the right shoes, of course. If you have the right shoes, you can do anything.

What's with the labels?" I demand, tugging back. "Why do people have to be defined by their sexual preference? Can't Shari just be Shari?