Quotes About Inclusion

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on the 'T' now than I was on the 'L' or the 'G.'

Black lives matter just as much as White lives matter, just as much as Hispanic lives matter.

What I liked about 'Get Out,' which is so rare, is that there's just as much focus on getting to know and care about these characters on top of the film being clever and scary.

'Diverse' shouldn't be an actionable thing - it should just be.

When I talk, it shouldn't just be black girls listening.

When they speak about 'We the people...,' we the people have to have a voice. It can't just be the establishment voice.

Everyone has contributed to the Women's Evolution in their own way, and I hope that my message can just be it's okay to not look like the rest, it's okay to not fit in, it's okay to be yourself and be different.

Just because I don't look like everybody else doesn't mean that I can't be just as beautiful.

There are gays and lesbians in every country, so there should be no discrimination against them just because of their destiny.

Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

Just because I don't speak English with an accent anymore doesn't mean that I'm better than the people who do.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

I've always loved basketball. When you're playing pick-up basketball, you just kind of get used to being one of the guys.

I think about what I grew up seeing, what I didn't see growing up, and what it felt like when I did see someone who I thought that I could relate to, just living their life on screen.

My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

I've never met anyone that I feel is like me or looks like me. There's just one of Beanie Feldstein.

The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever.

My message to everyone is that we truly are one, and the minute you see me as the person, not just as the Muslim - when you see me as Adeel Alam and not just the character on TV - when you see past all of that, we are all the same, and we are all just one.

I kind of understood inherently - and I wasn't really conflicted about this - that comics were not for me or by people who looked like me. That was just something that I accepted about the world.

There's something to be said about seeing your face represented. There's just something really important about that. It just draws you in more.

If you've got a disabilty you're normal, it's just something that's different.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

There's a lot of Donald Glovers, Jordan Peeles, Justin Simiens. And there's a lot of me's, too.