Quotes About Inclusion

Me & Mik. I've never been part of an ampersand before.

Lazlo couldn't have belonged at the library more truly if he were a book himself.

She keeps her eyes closed but smiles, giving herself away. "Shush, I'm having a dream." "It's not a dream. It's all real." "How would you know? You're not even in it." She feels playful, heavy with happiness. With rightness. "I'm in all of them," he says. "It's where I live now.

I only mean," he rushed to explain, "if you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.

For years I have lived with words and terms that divide people, words that mark who is to be exterminated and who is to be spared.

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

I, too, sing America.I am the darker brother.

I guess you're coming as my date now." Simon shoved the phone into his pocket. "I'm secure enough in my masculinity to accept that," said Jordan. "We better get you something nice to wear, though," he called as Simon headed back into his room. "I want you to look pretty.

I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.

I borrowed this from Kyle. My other shirt was pretty filthy." "Wow, you're wearing each other's clothes now. That's, like, best friend stuff." "Feeling left out?" said Kyle. "I suppose you want to borrow a black T-shirt too." "As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation." Eric poked his head through the curtain.

Is this some manly bonding thing I can't be a part of? Are you getting matching haircuts?

Will is… difficult," Jem said. "But family is difficult. If I didn't think the Institute was the best place for you, Tessa, I wouldn't say it was. And one can build one's own family. I know you feel inhuman, and as if you were set apart, away from life and love, but…" His voice cracked a little, the first time Tessa had heard him sound unsure. He cleared his throat. "I promise you, the right man won't care.

we are not here just because we have nowhere else; we need nowhere else, because we have the Institute, and those who are in it are our family.

I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but..." His voice cracked a little, the first time Tessa had heard him sound unsure. He cleared his throat. "I promise you, the right man won't care.

How had it happened, Simon thought, that he was bound to these people—to people who thought of him as nothing more than a Downworlder, half human at best?

Diversity is key where my casting duties are concerned. And as a casting director, I will always assemble multi-cultural ensembles. Always.

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.

I didn't want to pry. I felt like one of those typical white boys who didn't understand a thing. Who didn't even know, until a Japanese boy told me, that his family was not allowed citizenship. Maybe he wouldn't have minded my trying to learn. But I felt intimidated by my own ignorance, sure that every word out of my mouth would be a mistake.

He said it was because Christopher was willing to share the day with Daniel, but Daniel wasn't willing to share the day with Christopher." - Nathan's Grandfather

I wondered if a white person could ever comment on the minority experience and get it right.

Everyone knows, on some deep level, the conversations in which they don't belong. Chloe

Here's what I learned from Lenny in my sophomore year of high school: the down-and-out character is just as human as everybody else. You may not want to know him in real life, but in fiction, you just might dare. And in knowing him, you get a lesson in humanity: we're more the same than we might imagine. And that even the class outcast has talents. Someone just needs to tell her what they are.

If the kingdom of God belongs to children, they deserve full welcome and participation; they need to grow up as noticed, valued, and nurtured members of the faith community.