Quotes About Inclusion

To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way.

I was raised in a desegregated neighborhood.

I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood.

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!

Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.

Everybody is happier living in a mixed-income neighborhood.

I do admit that black men love me. I always forget that, and then I come to a black neighborhood and I remember.

I'd be the only disabled kid in the neighborhood playing football, and we're playing full contact, and I'd always manage to get open.

I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.

Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.

I grew up around so many different people in so many different neighborhoods, but the Latino heritage, the neighborhoods, and people have always been a part of my life, ever since I was a kid.

Do mainstream crowds want to watch a movie about good things happening in black neighborhoods? Do black audiences want to see a little girl doing something in a white world?

I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening when we start telling the young, hard-working, quote-unquote 'smart' kids that they need to measure success by how far they get away from our communities.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

We are all neighbors. And we must love neighbors as ourselves.

I am not someone who is different from Colorado. I am part of Colorado. I am like my neighbors and my community.

More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the 'Duck Dynasty' guy almost lost his show.

When your doctor and neighbours and child's schoolteachers know you are gay, there is no closet for you to hide in.

God love Neil Patrick Harris - how great is that. People grew up with him; they go, 'Oh it's him, it's that little boy and he just happens to be gay. How great for him!' The more of those kind of examples that happen, the better it's going to be.

I'm Japanese, and I'm also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.

That's my message: I'm not alone, and neither is anyone else.

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

I always felt out of place. I wasn't a cool kid, but I wasn't a nerd, either. I had trouble finding my place. But when I found the music, I had a place of my own.