Quotes About Inclusion

You know, anyone who invites me to do something makes me feel special.

The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic.

You always want to go to a party where you get an invite.

People like space. But they sometimes have been left out. People are much more open to that if you invite them in.

A lot of times, we look at people who have disabilities as, 'Oh, we can't invite these people here or there.' And I hate that, because it's inappropriate. It's so weird to me when people say they don't have friends who have disabilities.

Gluten is so ridiculous. Don't invite me to a dinner with someone who is gluten-free. I ruin the party.

You can't just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.

I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.

It is important to remember that I am not in the G-8; I am just an invited guest.

The custom of going to a party only when we have been invited is a necessary, attractive, decent way for a party to evolve.

I've never even been invited to the GLAAD awards, to sit in the audience. I don't necessarily care, and I'm sure they will one day, and it will be fine, but I've never been invited to anything like that.

I'm giving curvy women a seat at a table that we've never been invited to before - a table with high-end fashion people who have never considered us beautiful.

It is so important to share experiences with one another. Humans are so often in their own heads and not looking to others. But we have to realize that we are always invited to be a part of someone else's story - we are together in this.

The first time I worked with Usher, I learned that I belonged in the room. You know the first time you get invited into a room you have never been in and you almost feel like you lied your way in? The second time, you don't feel like you lied your way in.

I am not this kind of person who gatecrashes events. I only go to places where I am invited.

Once I got married, I was only invited to the things that Anurag was invited to. People would say, 'Call Anurag's wife.' They wouldn't say, 'call Kalki' or 'call Kalki's husband.'

Much of political decision-making concentrates power in the hands of those already inside the circle, who tend to be men. Excluding women may not be the intention, but when they are not invited into the room where decisions are made, you can see how it happens.

I think it's... I don't want to become a social crusader on this issue, but I think sports, male sports, has traditionally not been an inviting environment for gay men to identify themselves. But eventually... we will get to a place where it is not an issue in sports.

It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage or ethnicity - or it might not.

For the first time I tried to involve an important social message about transgenders in the horror comedy genre.

I think it's really important that we have diversity - whether it's different languages, cultures - be involved in film and in the arts.

Typecasting is a thing, but when it involves race, it narrows the roles available to an almost comically small amount.

I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.

I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.