Quotes About Inclusion

I get it - there are very few black female actresses who have been given chances.

I love to give people chances that otherwise wouldn't have them.

I feel like we have so much to add to this book called the American Dream, and I want to add our chapter to it. I want to talk about what it means to be brown American and this concept of what I feel is the New Brown America.

I don't look at life in terms of checking the boxes, making sure you have enough women here and enough men there.

You look at most of these 'best chef' lists, and there are about nine male chefs and one woman chef. The problem is still around.

Of course it is going to be difficult for any player to get in the Chelsea side no matter who they are.

I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

Access Living is a powerful voice for people in the Chicago area who live with disabilities.

I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

I got along with mostly everyone, but music school does that to you. We had to sing in a choir all the time, so we had to get along with everyone.

Make a list of the people in your 'choir'... If you're not on your own list, then you're doing something wrong.

It's about time that a woman my age or above, if she chooses to go into her 60s as an announcer, she should be allowed to do just that.

I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.

If you've got the chops, people these days are more accepting of you.

Obviously, since 9/11, here in this country there has been a resurgence of fear and people feeling distrustful of other people that are different. And what we chose to do was to focus on people coming together, working across those barriers of race, of culture, of religion, and really finding a heart connection.

The key emotion, when you grow up gay, lesbian, bi, trans, is shame. We chose what places we went to, chose the people we talked to, based on the idea of keeping ourselves safe.

I was chosen over British and French choreographers to work on 'Bombay Dreams.'

You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.

We have to start making sure that churches start to talk about... black queerness in a way that's affirming. Because a lot of young black men are in the church, and that's where they start to learn this self-hate behavior.

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

I only hang about with people I don't feel awkward around. I don't let many people into my circle.

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.

When I became an American citizen, nothing's changed because I'm still Asian.