Quotes About Inclusion

It's important to for your kids to see themselves in their superheroes. Really, it's important for all of us.

There aren't a lot of African-American superheroes. I've been reading comics since I was eight or nine years old. Luke Cage stood out.

It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.

I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.

The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.

I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.

The representation of gay characters on screen is important for us all to think about because there are sadly too few representations of gay characters on screen in mainstream cinema. If Marvel starts making movies about gay superheroes, then we'll be in a really great place. We're not at that place.

Let's bang the gong and chime for more Asian superheroes. The gatekeepers can certainly open the door - there's a wealth of East Asian talent around, and that needs to be tapped into.

When I was growing up, all these superheroes were white. On some level, you put that out of your mind... but as you get older, you realize it's a very one-sided affair. So I'm very glad to see that these movies are becoming more diversified.

We don't have a lot of black superheroes.

It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.

In South Africa, we've been watching these movies all our lives - 'Batman,' 'Superman,' 'Captain America' - and every time the mask comes off it's a white man.

I loved Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, but I was always keenly aware that people who looked like me could not look like that.

The people of Kashmir are our people, and we will do everything to ensure they are a part of the process of making India an economic superpower.

Growing up, we never got to see a hero who didn't have superpowers who looked like us, that you could kind of look to and say, 'I could be that guy one day. I could be a patriot. I could be a soldier. I could work in the government and be a hero.'

My fundamental aim is to drive female talent - it's not just to find the next female Formula One superstar.

People like Ellie Simmonds, David Weir, and Hannah Cockroft have become superstars alongside the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis. I think it has changed attitudes to disability.

Directors have to come forward and give women a chance to show their potential; they have to create more lady superstars.

For years, we've asked our suppliers to prioritize the talent and diversity of their sales teams calling on our company.

From day one working in TV, I have been very conscious of the way the Irish are represented, In every show I've been involved in I read the script, take out the Irishisms right away and say, 'I'll supply those'.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.