Quotes About Inclusion

Young people need to see that you can be a nerd and still be cool.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

I was an athlete, but I was also a nerd. And so I didn't really fit in with the jocks because I was a nerd, and I didn't fit in with the nerds because I was a jock.

We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of the cool kids to say, 'Hey, this is all right.'

There's a lot of closeted nerds out there.

A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.

There's a large risk to our society if a group of people doesn't have access to technology or even the desire to get on the Net and see what opportunities are out there. Technology can be a great equalizer.

I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show.

I think there's a bias against fat people on network television.

Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

The cavemen are still in charge at the networks. They're all white males, and you can't get away from that.

I challenge you to go and turn on the other cable networks to find a face like mine in primetime.

Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit of an idiot.

It is incredibly important to me that no child in New Hampshire fears being bullied in school.

If you have got diversity on your board, then you are going to have new ideas come to the table.

I landed in New Jersey, where I could barely speak English, and I had to figure out what a short brown kid was going to do in this big white world.

It would be nice if every state were like New Mexico and cared about the Indian vote.

Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.

My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.

From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven.

The people really are what make New York City great.

When you go back to 'Friends,' and you look at that as New York, there's no black people. That's not real. You're in New York City, and there's no black people at all. That's a little funny.

New York City has an integration problem.