Quotes About Inclusion

If you can't quite make it as a high flier then join a trampoline club.

We all have a voice of sorts and when put with others we make a good sound.

Remember that when you say 'I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,' you have denied America with that word.

Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do.

Ernest performed a strange service for any male in that household. He helped his mother put breakfast on the table, and suggested that she sit down to eat with the rest of us.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

17.14) "The uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people." An uncircumcised boy is to be abandoned by his parents and community.

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

We all share the planet, the rainbows share the sky, why can't we all share the same dream? And rap about what we see?

I feel very accepted, like I never have any slander. I never have any issues. You know, like, when people see me, they respect me. It's all about how you carry yourself.

I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.

As a rule, I feel more comfortable on the Republican slate.

I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.

I've never been one to carry race on my sleeve, and I've never been one to really use my race.

That's why the role that I have on 'Grey's Anatomy' is important to me, because it's a human being. He doesn't have to wear race on his sleeve; he doesn't even have to talk about it. We just lead by our actions.

Every race I've been in, I calculated race into the equation. If you're in America, you calculate it into the equation. It is a factor. I never make it an issue. I don't run the campaign wearing it on my sleeve, but I don't run away from it, either.

We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.

It makes no sense to me that my gay friends cannot get married to each other because a certain slice of Christianity doesn't believe in gay marriage.

Every single person in this world is a minority in one way or another. It just depends on how you slice the pie.

I think everybody carries a slight sense of being different, and I know that it comes very naturally to me.

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders.

I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of their skin, their origin, or their religion. I defend them all, because I defend French people. And, of course, I defend the interests of France, the interests of French people.