Quotes About Inclusion

A notable exception is the position taken by Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary in their Psychological Bulletin article, The Need to Belong: Desire for Interpersonal Attachments as a Fundamental

We tolerate difference only when we don't have to look at it or listen to it, as long as it doesn't impact our lives.

I said I was a stranger here. "Ain't no strangers here, baby," she said, and gave me a merry smile.

If they make it, they can blend in.

the great theater of belonging.

Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge. - James T. Kirk, Balance of Terror

Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.

Nothing. Although they are flowers you did not count on, they are still part of the garden.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

When foreigners come into a nation, the best way is to make them no longer foreign. That is to say, let us marry our young together and let there be children. War is costly, love is cheap.

And as for equality, are the fingers on one hand equal in length? Each has its place.

To belong to one was to deny himself the privilege of belonging to all.

Be proud of your child, accept him as he is and do not heed the words and stares of those who know no better. This child has a meaning for you and for all children. You will find a joy you cannot now suspect in fulfilling his life for and with him.

want to go where my children never hear that a man's color dooms him and that because a woman is black, she is not a woman but a female.

Consciously or unconsciously, we carry around concepts of "us" and "them," "right" and "wrong," "worthy" and "unworthy." In this framework, there's not much room for a middle ground; everything is at one pole or another. When groups of people or whole nations get together around these concepts, they can become hugely magnified, which may result in large-scale suffering: discrimination, oppression, war.

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.

There is no color line in art.

It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

I don't want to be in an art bubble.