Quotes About Inclusion

Having L.G.B.T. people sitting in the room while decisions are being made, and sitting there as peers, will shift the conversation.

There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

Do I want more women elected to Parliament? Absolutely. I devote significant amounts of time to getting more women in that situation.

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.

I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.

For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

Six of my 12 grandchildren are black.

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?

To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in.

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

Try being my size and going into a public restroom.

A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they're very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers.

I think that, for so long, there was only one type of actor, and now you see these different colors, different people, different shapes and different sizes. It just makes it more interesting.

The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.

I believe film and television should reflect our society, and the reality is that there are people in many different shapes and sizes, ethnicities, sexual orientation - the list goes on.

Women of all ethnicities, complexions, and sizes want to be able to wear makeup and nice clothes. No one wants to go out and feel like they're substandard or that there's only one mold that they don't fit.

A model is supposed to represent reality, and in reality, people come in all shapes, sizes, nationality, and colour.

When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.

I am proud to be a first-generation Chinese-American in the sport of figure skating.