Quotes About Inclusion

I like the noise of democracy.

It's so nice to be nominated for something by your culture, it's always very cool.

Like, in Asian culture, you have to be down with the family. You have to be down with all the crazy traditional or non-traditional things we do.

None of our kids come into the world knowing anything about disliking one another.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.

The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

We like to think of the '60s as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and a little bit of friction - no, there were all of these different groups. There was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, Martin and Malcolm, but also the Whitney Youngs of the world, the Bayard Rustins of the world.

Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.

I have always been interested in people who live outside of the fabric of the norm.

It's so easy to make an Asian person the doctor, the lawyer, the smart kid in school. What's harder is challenging the norm and hiring Asian actors to play your Average Joe.

When folks say 'identity politics' don't matter, it simply reinforces the norm of a white, middle-class, cis narrative and further marginalizes the rest of us who don't share that identity.

'13 Reasons Why' includes LGBTQ people and people of color in stories without making it about that. They're just living, breathing, human beings who happen to be different from the white, cis, straight norm.

I just want to be like other people that are normal.

I want my children to have a normal life and not face racism and their children's children.

It's important that people can be themselves and live a normal life that's not defined by a disability.

Since I can remember, being different was always hard around normal people. That's just how it is, whether you have vitiligo, a deformity, or a different way of thinking or dressing. It's going to always be weird for normal people.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

When you meet people you don't want them to look at you and say 'poor you.' I just wanted to be treated like a normal person.

I hope what people see in me is that I'm a normal guy, and that people who look as I do can do normal things.

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

It's my mission in life to put people on the screen who don't get normally represented.