Quotes About Inclusion

Often, when you go to the movies or the theatre, you think, Jesus Christ, everybody is white. But my daughter goes to an amazing dance school called Ballet Black, and they have every colour: dark, white, mixed. It looks like the future to me.

You had your black bands, and you had your white bands, and if you mixed the two, you found less places to play.

People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'

My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too.

I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.

Black folk who don't realize I'm mixed will treat me like I'm some racist person, or when white people find out I'm black, they treat me with racism, and I don't feel like I belong or fit in anywhere.

I'd like to see more beauty campaigns for girls who are mixed Latina and black.

A lot of people decide, if you're mixed, you're black. And so they try to force you to choose a culture.

It was quite strange that people were saying I wasn't Asian enough. It's like, 'Oh, you're not Asian enough to play an Asian role.' So what does that mean for people who come from mixed heritage? I grew up in Asia; I'm Malaysian.

I'm mixed, and I'm proud of that.

Because when you have all white men in the writers' room trying to tell the perspective of cultural appropriation or what it's like to be black or Asian in America and not necessarily knowing what it's like, that's when everything gets mixed up.

I have quite a different background from a lot of people in the Labour party - I'm of mixed heritage.

I'm glad my son doesn't have to be labeled black or Samoan or mixed. He has instead been labeled as the best.

I came from a council estate in the '80s which was predominantly black, white or Indian. Being Chinese mixed race we instantly stuck out.

And I always talk about how when you're mixed race, you often get told you're this, you're not that' or you're not enough that, you're not Asian enough, you're not white enough.'

I've always felt mixed race. Or as my music teacher said during a lesson: 'You are a mulatto.' I always felt there were white people, black, and then people like me in the middle.

Mixed people - people of color - we've always been here. But we are really entering a time in which we are proud of our heritage. Proud to say, I'm not one or the other. I'm both.' And that's beautiful.

Being mixed race in Britain in the '80s and '90s, there just weren't loads of people who looked like me.

The way people grow up, it shapes the way they think and the way they do certain things. I grew up with a mixed population, white, Hispanic and black. I feel all people are equal.

I made my England debut when I was 17, against India. I was the first Asian to play for the England women's team, and I did have mixed feelings playing against the country my parents are from but I was born and bred in England and I've always known I wanted to play for my country.

I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

Literally everything good about this culture comes from mixing.

There are lots of great educationalists out there who really care about social mobility.

For many Georgians, physical mobility means social mobility.