Quotes About Inclusion

I have noticed a growth in demand from audiences to include more women of colour and women to be cast as significant roles in TV shows and movies.

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.

It was an event whenever 'CHiPs' would come on in my house. There wasn't a lot of Latin people being hired to star in TV shows or movies back in the day. Not only was it a fun show, there was a Latino starring in it - so we thought it was extra cool.

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to move story along or as a way to make things more entertaining.

I grew up in a very, very diverse neighborhood back home in Maryland. And when I see that on TV shows, it makes me want to watch it, personally. I just gravitate towards that.

Not everybody comes out when they're in their twenties, you know?

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.

That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.

Whether you look at 'Glee' and its normalization of gay identity or you look at the work of Martin Scorsese and the Italian-American community, American culture is able to take these stories, which are seen as marginalized, and just turn them into American stories. And you don't think twice about it.

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

If you are other, you don't think twice about hiring people who are other.

A lot of people don't want to hire disabled actors. They think you're going to take twice as long over a shot, or they don't want have to put up a ramp for disabled access. They think, 'Why would I do that when I can just hire an able-bodied actor to play the disabled character?'

When I see all the boys in the top jobs across our leagues, I'm like: 'Oh my God, the only woman sitting on top of the pile and I'm only there twice a week!' It's brilliant!

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.

It's not that the universe wants you to be abundant; it is offering you the opportunity to take part in its abundance.

You always have to take care of the sisters first, so my dad would buy Barbies and stuff and I wouldn't get anything. So I don't want any other kid to feel like that.

I think the culture is changing. An example of that is that the commanders truly want the very best person for the job regardless of gender.

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness and your black presence.

The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and blue states in the era of [Donald] Trump.