Quotes About Inclusion

Some people just want to be accepted.

For some people, the definition of who is and who isn't an American defies logic, historical accuracy, common sense, decency, good manners, the milk of human kindness, enjoyment in the good things in life, and love of good food.

Bisexuals are gay people - we're all gay. Some people don't like that.

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

When somebody's different, it's so easy to dismiss what people say because of what they look like. They really want to judge the book by its cover.

The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'

I remember doing 'La Bamba' and thinking, 'Do you really think that Latinos will be accepted in mainstream?' and I said, 'Someday I hope so, but there is no guarantee.'

Someday, being gay will be a simple fact, free of party hats and blame. But not yet.

I always believe that if we Hindus are like milk, Punjabis, Sikhs are the butter, the best part of that milk. Brought up with that kind of respect for Punjabis, I always desired to play a true Sikh character on screen someday.

The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens.

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

It's ludicrous that someone can be fired from their job, refused care at a hospital or denied housing because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

To some Americans, there was no possible way I could naturally be the daughter of this white American; I had to be from someplace else.

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

Kids don't like what they don't understand, and judo was always my social outlet. I always felt really socially awkward, and I couldn't speak very well when I was younger. When I was doing judo, it was something that I could understand and someplace where I felt that I belonged and fit in.

I am very Latino in everything I am and I do, but there's a part of me that's also something else. I'm reflective of the way this country's gonna be in the next 40 years. More multicultural is what we'll see.

The unity in diversity lies only in your heart.

All I care for is the inclusion of my name in the list of the believers of the supremacy of human soul over all other masterpieces He has ever produced.

Acceptance and validation are the fuels of the future.

Everyone I've ever met who was worth knowing was a bit different at school. You just need to find your people''Find my people?''Your tribe

Love is the key to diversity