Quotes About Inclusion

It's time for there to be roles in the ballet where two men can fall in love, and a woman can lead a company of 20 dancers that include both men and women.

Since there have been men and women, there have been funny women.

I don't know why there is still any barrier between men and women in terms of achievement and success.

It's really important that we don't hang up the membership to the human community at menopause.

You know what, when I was a kid I said to myself my skin colour isn't going to stop me achieving what I want regardless of what colour I was, so I don't want these kids to have that mentality.

I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.

When you read 'author Katharine Holabird, creator of Angelina' and you're not even mentioned, you wince.

It was nothing I ever hid and when I was asked about my background, I of course mentioned I'm Jewish. It's an important part of who I am.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu.

If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and half should be troubling.

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

Most Russians believe they've never met an LGBT person in their lives. Also they immediately see LGBT people as 'other,' lending to the success of singling the group out as a 'problem.'

I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn't speak English.

With rock and metal, I think a lot of people connect with the lyrics because they feel like they don't fit in.

I agree that it's a macho world, metal, but it's also a very, very social world, where people are loving music in respect for one another, female or male.

I joined a metal band with only guys when I was 17.

Women are more meticulous and methodical. But on the other hand, I feel if you go on a male-dominated set, which is mostly any other set, you don't ask how it was to be on a male-dominated set.

It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

When you talk about me as a fighter, I like being known as a Mexican fighter. I think 'Mexican' or 'Hispanic' should be mentioned.

I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family.

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there.

Everyone who thinks I'm not Mexican simply because I was born in the United States is wrong.