Quotes About Inclusion

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

I have an interest in the outsider.

There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.

I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

I don't think I'm an outsider at all.

I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

I always did my own thing. I'm not an outsider, but I have one foot in and one foot out.

I will carry with me always the deep sense of what it feels like to be an outsider and how tough it was, how hard it was to adapt to this country.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

I always felt a little bit of an outsider, especially because I grew up on Oahu.

I wanted to make a movie that celebrates the outsider, the one who is different, the one who is not normal - and show how important that is.

Everybody think they're an outsider - that word's over! When I was young, being an outsider, I thought it was a bad thing you didn't want to be.

I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.

I felt like I was an outsider growing up in the black church, as a gay man, in a poor community.

I do know what it's like to be an outsider.

However popular you are, you still feel like an outsider.

I'm both an insider and an outsider.

Everybody feels like an outsider at some point in their lives.

I always had this crisis: where do I come from? I was never an insider, never an outsider; I was always in the middle. But it means I never have borders in my head.

I am probably an outsider because I challenge conventional narratives about who should have a seat at the table.

Every time you come across someone who looks like an outsider, the best way to go about it is to open your mind a little bit. You have to try to understand somebody who isn't like you.