Quotes About Inclusion

If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

Friends don't care about issues like dwarf tossing.

I've always been a black woman in corporate America. I've faced my share of issues.

Gilmore Girls' felt very apart from everything else that was happening. I felt very lucky to be able to be on a show dealing with those issues. I was proud.

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.

Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.

There are many good players, in Italy and abroad.

When we talk about racists, first, racists still exist on this earth. They're in Europe and in Austria and Germany where we play, in Italy. I've heard a lot of things and also have my own experience with that. We don't have space for this, especially in football, but also just on the Earth.

I don't think Italy is a racist country, because there are so many immigrants.

In Italy there is less faith in youth but I believe that if a player is good enough then he should play regardless.

If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that I'm there.

I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues.

For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.

Even in Jamaica, your own country, coming into youth cricket you need to be from an upscale high school or have a light skin. As you get older you get used to the culture. My club, Lucas Cricket Club, was the only one to accept black people back in the day.

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

Gays and lesbians should have the same rights as anybody else, and when they're in Jamaica, they do have the same rights.

I grew up watching period dramas, as we all did in the 1980s and '90s - endless adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - and I loved them. But I never saw anyone like me in them, so I decided to find a story to erode the excuses for me not doing one.

The concept of 'diversity' was this big moral 'should.' And now with the success of shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat,' 'Empire,' 'Blackish,' and 'Jane the Virgin,' it's become this big business 'must,' which is so great.

I'll be a janitor in 'Crazy Rich Asians 2.' Let's do that.

As a kid living in an isolated desert town, the most diversity I saw in my media was Claudia Kishi, the Japanese American girl from 'The Baby-Sitters Club.'

One job I did turn down was 'How I Met Your Mother.' My character was 'creepy gay guy.' That was the character. The script said, 'Creepy gay guy gets in elevator every day with Jason Segel character and he's just being creepy.'

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.