Quotes About Inclusion

Play simple, and people will join in. Sing along. Which, by the way, is the goal. Our job is to put a song in their mouths and let them sing it back to us. That's all that really matters." Then he added, "The great players aren't great because of all the notes they can play, but because of the ones they don't play.

The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic.

We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality.

casual encounters (such as, say, the kind that might happen around a volleyball court on a Friday night) are just as important to belonging and trust as contact with family and close friends.

The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Who gets to be an American? What does an American look like?

He is asking to be treated like an American. A real american. Cuz honestly, when you think about American, what color do you see? white? black? We (the Chinese) have been here 200 years....the German, the Dutch, the Italian, they came here in the turn of century; they are Americans. Why doesn't this face ("yellow") register as American? Is it because we make the story too complicated?

This is it. The root of it all. The real history of yellow people in America. Two hundred years of being perpetual foreigners.

Willis is] asking to be treated like an American. A real American. Because, honestly, when you think American, what color do you see? White? Black? We've been here two hundred years. Why doesn't this face register as American?

He's asking to be treated like an American. A real American. Because, honestly, when you think American, what color do you see? White? Black? We've been here two hundred years. The first Chinese came in 1815. Germans and Dutch and Irish and Italians who came at the turn of the twentieth century. They're Americans. (points at himself) Why doesn't this face register as American? Is it because we make the story too complicated?

Able to pass in any situation as may be required," she says. "I get it all. Brazilian, Filipina, Mediterranean, Eurasian. Or just a really tan White girl with exotic-looking eyes. Everywhere I go, people think I'm one of them. They want to claim me for their tribe.

And you think: no. It won't be somewhere else. It will be here, again, in Chinatown, next year, same place. To be yellow in America. A special guest star, forever the guest.

He's asking to be treated like an American. A real American. Because, honestly, when you think American, what color do you see? White? Black?

After two centuries here, why are we still not Americans? Why do we keep falling out of the story?

Any inhabitant with a negative attachment coefficient (in which case it is referred to as a coefficient of ironic detachment) will be placed on probation pending review of the individual's suitability for continued inclusion within the U31 diegetic space.

As if I were an incense stick incrementally burning off, first into smoke, and then becoming a part of the room.

To be yellow in America...a special guest star, forever the guest. Fade to black.

Nothing is invalid. Except bullying, invalidation and pineapple pizza.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.