Quotes About Inclusion

One woman in a photo makes it harder for us to ignore that the men are men.

Four kids in T-shirts and jeans jam on a powwow stage. They're grinning, bouncing, fully engaged with their music, each other, and the relaxed crowd. I'm splitting fry bread with a cousin as we cheer on the band, and across the tent, a young girl reading a paperback catches my eye. In that moment, I wish for more characters like those kids in the pages of children's books. This anthology is a fulfillment of that wish.

Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.

One thing I know about being in a three-way friendship is that you'd better not let the other two spend too much time without you, or it turns into a two-way friendship, minus you.

But that's the one thing about being blind. What you look like doesn't matter to Lucky. He sees you with his heart" -Lily

Where I live is one of the places where suburban stories were first mass-produced. They were stories then for displaced Okies and Arkies, Jews who knew the pain of exclusion, Catholics who thought they did, and anyone white with a steady job.

If you want to do a female version of 'The Expendables,' I'll be in that one.

I've had friends of mine say, like, they're tired of 'gayface,' and I was like, 'What's gayface?' They were like, 'It's the gay version of blackface: like, come in and be more effeminate.'

I think this is the most exciting time to be alive right now. We have a black president. There are transgender movies and media out there now. Gay characters are playing non-stereotypical versions of themselves. I feel like as a society, or in television at least, we're rising up. Even in society we're rising up.

The rainbow flag is beautiful because it's about love. The Confederate flag is ugly because it's about hate. It's pretty simple from the art level: beautiful versus ugly.

This is not about race or affiliation, and it isn't about black versus blue. All lives matter.

I have had a small handful of truly blatantly discriminatory experiences for being transgender, but the vast majority are simply the differences between being a man versus being a woman in science and business.

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

I don't look at it as mainstream country versus outsider.

We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down.

The only thing I wish was happening more was that there were more Indian characters. Like the movies with leads that are Indian and they talk about Indian culture versus Americanized Indians.

It's very important to choose kindness and stop bullying.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

It feels very cool to be part of a girl gang.

Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I ever remember my dad saying, 'Go away, this is an adult conversation.'

Queer culture was introduced to me at a very early age. It was introduced to me with a semi-positive facet because no one in my family is remotely homophobic or closed-minded.

It matters so much that from a very early age we encounter different kinds of different people, because that's what real life should be about as well.

I'm a breath of fresh air, and there hasn't been something this black on TV for a very long time.

In boxing we're allowed to come togethwe. Protestants and Catholics, the north and south, everyone. I'm in an Irish vest, even on a mural in Tiger's Bay, because boxing brings the communities together.