Quotes About Inclusion

I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.

I could have just invited a bunch of my pilot buddies to go, and we would have had a great time and come back and had a bunch of cocktails. Instead, we wanted to bring in everyday people and energize everyone else around the idea of opening up spaceflight to more and more of us.

Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.

I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

Nobody knew if the pilot would even get picked up because it had two gay lead characters, which has never happened before. And now every show has at least two gay characters, if not many more.

I walk into a room, there's one or two black women. There aren't that many because the pipeline of talent just isn't there.

My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.

We have a lot of guys from different backgrounds in pit crews and even in the front offices of NASCAR and race teams.

Napoli fans saw themselves in me. I knew I was not alone when entering the pitch, but I was there with a whole city.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

It's important for women to continue to break through barriers in our industry, in politics, in Wall Street.

We just haven't had enough women in senior roles on Wall Street overall - fewer women in the investment banking function overall as well.

I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.

If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world.

Here in America, we don't give in to our fears. We don't build up walls to keep people out.

We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

The deaf community has shaped me as an artist and a person, and I am very grateful that I have been able to share and create so much art with a group of people I would have never imagined sharing and creating with. It's a true testament to the power of theater. There are no walls.

The number of African Americans in Silicon Valley is dismal. It's not up to one company - it's up to the entire industry to make sure that we are moving the conversation forward. Sometimes those walls of competition need to come down so we can move the entire industry forward.

I like to knock down walls and allow others to enter.

At a time when too many people want to separate us by building walls, we here in Michigan are going to get back to building bridges together.

We want everybody to feel comfortable shopping at Walmart.

We want everyone at Walmart to feel comfortable coming to work.

I got tired of walking through Durham with people screaming 'Carolina' at me when I walk through Walmart and stuff like that.

I've always been quite scared about talking about race. You don't wanna rock the boat because you want to keep working.