Quotes About Inclusion

I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

It's not lost on me to have the ability to be wearing custom Dior or Gucci, with my box braids or my bantu knots. It's another opportunity to show that Black girls belong in these places and that what I naturally bring as a Black girl belongs as well.

The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.

I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia.

I was raised on Hong Kong movies with Asian stars, so I'm still learning about Hollywood underrepresenting certain people.

In the States I might be an Asian face, look different from everyone else in TV and in music, but in Korea I look like everybody else, in Asia I look like everybody else.

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

People don't really assume that I'm Filipino. Of course, they're gonna think, 'Oh, are you some sort of Hispanic?' and you say, 'No, I'm actually not.' I get Korean or Chinese a lot.

We all want to be affiliated with success. It's the impulse of people who have been excluded, and Koreans have been excluded from lots of parties.

There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on stage, and I have played on their record. There are a couple of bands like that. Yo La Tengo has invited me to play with them.

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

As an Asian immigrant coming in, for the longest time I still had problems getting in the lot because they're just not used to seeing someone like me who's directing these films. I do think ultimately there's a point where we can kind of just shed that label and become filmmakers.

I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor.

Labels are for cans, not people.

I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

Labels are actually not to make us understand things better: they are actually to ostracise and discriminate that what does not belong to the majority.

I like to call the Department of Labor the Department of Opportunity, and that means opportunity for everyone - no matter whom you love.

School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.

Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgrounds can rationally value the same opportunities differently.

One anti-Semitic member of the Labour party is one member too many.

I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I set out to do, and I lead by example.

Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.

If there is room in your heart, you'll make room in your home.