Quotes About Inclusion

I clearly wasn't in the inner circle, nor was I a member of the orbiters. I wasn't sure if I even fit into the category of outsider. Then was I even lower than garbage? Was it my lot in life to stand forever on heaven's shores watching the glittering swirl of celestial bodies on the other side?

the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' ... Okay, fine. So like everybody in the old countries says, 'Hey, I'm a huddled mass,' and they all wanna come over.

Sometimes prejudice can be slapped upside the head by tolerance.

In a perfect world mothers would all want their babies, and strangers would open up their homes to the unloved.

Anastasia felt inadequate among the greats, and yet they parted to make sure she was in the midst of them, as an equal.

Only idiots build walls.

Don't be ridiculous," Goddard said. "Only idiots build walls.

the history of melancholia includes all of us.

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.

I don't want to stay where I'm not wanted. I don't want to stay where I'm disliked.

The Gays have not only come out of the closet, but they have managed somehow to put us into it.

I would like to be human if only they would let me.

Adoro quelli che si sentono fuori posto, con loro mi sento sempre nel posto giusto.

To be in Christ ... means to be in the church." —THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP

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A.J. was one of the guys. One of the guys with breasts, a shapely butt, and sparkling green eyes.

More important, that second question assumes that gender is all about sex, or that sexual preference is at the core of our gender. I can't speak for other transsexuals, but there is no way on God's green earth I would

I think with 'Hamilton,' Lin-Manuel has really blown up the whole casting idea. It's miraculous. You look at '1776,' it's a bunch of old white guys and old white chicks. You look at 'Hamilton,' and it's just the faces of America.

Film is a mirror. I want to see more filmmakers. We all want to see ourselves.

The BBC should mirror the country.

I think the biggest misconception is that people think deaf people are not able to do things.

There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.