Quotes About Inclusion

I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider.

I don't feel comfortable as an insider.

I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community.

Never ignore someone with a disability, as we don't realize how much they can inspire.

I'd like to inspire Black girls to think: 'If she can do it, I can.'

I think here in the U.S., we have a hard time accepting disabilities. That's why I think it's really good to share and let kids know that its not a disability, it's an ability. You have an ability to inspire others.

I just wanted to be a part of the band. Actually, that's what inspired me.

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

Even Instagram has become a way to show off your girl group and make other girls feel left out.

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

Instead of hate, celebrate.

My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.

I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.

The U.S. military may well be the best-integrated large institution on the planet. You have people from every corner of the country, every ethnic background, every walk of life, and we all come together to serve.

I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white.

They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.

Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.

I've heard other actors saying they don't want to play a character with an accent at all. To me, that's kind of an insult to somebody like me who did have an accent.

I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.

You can be of any ethnic background or faith and be a Canadian if you share fundamental Canadian values, learn about our history and culture, and integrate in our society.

I want to ideate with people and come up with something through which I can rehabilitate people who are handicapped in some way and integrate them with people into mainstream. That's the bigger plan!

Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn't matter to us what we looked like.

I grew up in L.A. in a school that was diverse, but it was not really integrated, so I didn't ever fully fit in with the black girls or the white girls or the Latina girls.