Quotes About Inclusion

If a casting breakdown said 'All-American Type' or 'Lead Role,' I knew they weren't thinking of me.

Theatre has always been ahead in terms of colourblind casting.

Like, I played baseball with all boys. They didn't want to play catch with me. I mean, it's the story of everything I've done.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.

Growing up, I never thought that I would fall into any category. I felt like I didn't fit in anywhere.

I've always navigated my way around the comedy writing rooms because I didn't want to cater to this side and that side; I just wanted to be liked by everybody.

I went to a very small Catholic school. It wasn't an easy place to be growing up gay.

It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.

We must celebrate difference until difference doesn't make a difference in the way we treat each other.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

I'm lucky to be in a space where I've been accepted for who I am and celebrated for who I am.

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

New York used to be a place where, if you were different, you were celebrated.

Quite honestly, I never thought it would be possible for Asians to make it in the States. But now I feel like it's totally changing. You see so many Asian celebrities now, and more and more of them are taking bigger roles in movies. I feel like everything has changed.

People should start appreciating films where women are at the centre.

There were no small brown kids as the centre of the children's fiction I grew up with.

As co-founder and CEO of an AI company, I am used to there not being many women in the room, especially in AI.

My family is Jamaican. We were just the slaves that were dropped off over there. And at the end of the day when you live and exist as a Black person in America, at least to white society, to a certain extent, no one is asking where you're from and where you were born.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

When we talk of identity, we often think of groups such as black Muslim lesbians in wheelchairs. This is because identity only seems to become an issue when it is challenged or under threat.

People always say, 'Oh, there haven't been many black champions,' but on the other hand, there are a whole lot of white people that never won a belt either.

The business of second chances is everybody's business.