Quotes About Inclusion

When you grow up as a minority in a majority culture, a lot of times, you're just trying to fit in.

I'm not a minority: I'm a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings.

Where do I fit in? That's something I think about as an actor, especially as an actor from a minority community.

I never consider myself a minority. I see people who look like me in Barbados, in Trinidad, in Haiti, in London, and in Brooklyn. So I don't know what the heck anyone means when they call me a 'minority.' There's something about that word to me. It just minimalizes people.

I think it's so important as a woman, and especially as a minority, to lift as you climb. So having people shadow you or mentoring people - that's important to me.

American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.

I feel there has to be a concerted effort that we encourage, in whichever way, more black and minority ethnic coaches to take their badges at the higher levels.

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

You know, I would like to ask to the other parts of Canada to respect the minority of the French Canadians.

No minority should climb all over the majority.

Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.

We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.

I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

Definitely the Korean culture is very strong to me, and I grew up in Hawaii where Asian-Americans are the dominant culture, but I never thought of myself as the minority.

When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.

The natural result of people preferring one of their own race is that a minority race president will find it hard to get elected, and so it's something we should do something about and which we can do something about.

I think my parents felt us being a minority a little bit more than I did, and they tried to shelter me from that so I didn't feel it at all.

What I crave, and what I want to see on television, is when you see a minority character, not to have it being about them being black or Asian or Latino. If you watch 'Friends,' for example, it's not about a group of people being white. It's about a group of people being friends, you know? You should just let the characters exist.

A lot of times when I play a show, I'm the only girl on the bill. We're a minority, for sure.

Minority ethnic issues need to be mainstream issues.

I've spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.

I have always included minority characters in my stories, often as heroes.

Women are a minority the same way gay people are.