Quotes About Inclusion

Singapore is an international city, and it would be a grave mistake to close our doors.

It's tough, because I come to Singapore, and people say I'm not Singaporean, and I go to England, and people say I'm not English. It's really hard to find your place, not just in the entertainment industry, but in life.

In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only wanted instrumentalists; they didn't want any singers. But I made my way in, and I remember the conductor of the band wrote a lot of arrangements and asked me what I wanted to sing.

There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

I don't happen to believe, by the way, that immigration policies that single people out because of religion, for instance, are fair and just.

When you don't have diversity in the creative process, you inevitably end up with a single, narrow perspective in the output.

If a firm hasn't hired a single female partner in its history, I don't think it will finally happen by accident.

There are people in our country, in our communities who are being marginalized and discriminated against every single day. I fight for them.

Every single day matters when it comes to building a world where every person can live their life to the fullest.

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

I am at the table. I am first generation. I am Irish-Puerto Rican. I am a single mom.

I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who's an immigrant. I just didn't believe acting was something that people like me could do on a professional level.

We are redefining what leadership looks like and pushing for every single person to be part of that conversation.

You want to earn the vote of every single person you can... It doesn't matter whether individuals are in need of assistance of the government or individuals who are in college; it doesn't matter.

I loved films like 'When Harry Met Sally' and 'Annie Hall,' but these were very specific, white Manhattan experiences. You don't see a single person of color anywhere, but somehow these films are universal. As a filmmaker and creator, I was frustrated with that idea.

It's not really cool to be singled out.

I don't like being singled out.

There have been a lot of great players through the years who have played at UCLA. I hate to be singled out while other guys are being left out of that kind of group.

Black culture is pop culture, Black History Month is every month, and that's something they want us to forget. What better way to remember than to highlight all of our differences as a singular people across the globe?

Eventually my courageous Mom did something we do all too rarely. She got on a plane and she came to see me in L.A. - this place where we'd always been told sinners lived. She came to see my gay friends.

Jesus Christ came for me, and he came for each person that is infected with HIV/AIDS. God loves that person. He doesn't hate them. They've made mistakes. We've all made mistakes. But God loves them, God cares for them, and Jesus Christ died for their sins.

There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.

When I started, there were no Indians on television or films, except for Sir Ben Kingsley. I was an actor in high school, college, and I played leads. And when I graduated, I knew that I couldn't go to Hollywood and audition for shows or films. I could try, but where was the evidence that it was going to happen?

Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I'm some kind of 'sissy' or something. That's the language that you hear in locker rooms.