Quotes About Inclusion

You must claim America, she said. America will not give itself to you. If you do not claim America, if America is not in your heart, America will throw you into a concentration camp or a reservation or a plantation.

in America it was all or nothing when it came to race. You were either white or you weren't. Funnily

Japanese American, she corrected me. Not Japanese. And Vietnamese American, not Vietnamese. You must claim America, she said. America will not give itself to you. If you do not claim America, if America is not in your heart, America will throw you into a concentration camp or a reservation or a plantation.

blurring the lines between us and them can be a worthy behavior. After

Even if refugees, undocumented immigrants, and legal immigrants are not all potential billionaires, that is no reason to exclude them. Even if their fate is to be the high-school dropout and the fast-food cashier, so what? That makes them about as human as the average American, and we are not about to deport the average American (are we?).

No wonder, then, that I was drawn to the General, who, like my friends Man and Bon, never sneered about my muddled heritage. Upon selecting me for his staff, the General said, The only thing I'm interested in is how good you are at what you do, even if the things I ask you to do may not be so good. I

in America it was all or nothing when it came to race. You were either white or you weren't. Funnily enough, I had never felt inferior because of my race during my foreign student days. I was foreign by definition and therefore was treated as a guest. But now, even though I was a card-carrying American with a driver's license, Social Security card, and resident alien permit, Violet still considered me as foreign, and

blurring the lines between us and them can be a worthy behavior.

Here's to you, Claude, I said, raising my glass to him. Congratulations. For what? he said, raising his own. Now you know what it feels like to be one of us. His laugh was short and bitter. I was thinking the exact same thing.

in America it was all or nothing when it came to race. You were either white or you weren't.

Imagine always having to live with a hyphen dividing you!

My brother went to Harvard seven years after arriving in the States with no English. I won the Pulitzer Prize. We could be put on a poster touting how refugees make America great. And we do. But it shouldn't take this kind of success to be welcomed. Even if refugees, undocumented immigrants, and legal immigrants are not all potential billionaires, that is no reason to exclude them.

Cut to villagers speaking in their own language? Do you think it might not be decent to let them actually say something instead of simply acknowledging that there is some kind of sound coming from their mouths? Could you not even just have them speak a heavily accented English—you know what I mean, ching-chong English—just to pretend they are speaking in an Asian language that somehow American audiences can strangely understand?

I am a refugee, an American, and a human being, which is important to proclaim, as there are many who think these identities cannot be reconciled.

All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.

He who has no house of his own is everywhere at home.

He who never goes to your house doesn't want you in his house.

The people who live everywhere are the same as those who live nowhere.

Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone's skin.

Music is the place where democracy lives. Every note is equal.

I wish they would take me as I am.

Ve kiÅŸi, kad?nlar? çal??malar?n?n d???nda tutmakla çaÄŸd??? bir tutum içine girmiÅŸ olur. Her yerde ayn? bu, ister kentte ol ister k?rsal yörelerde; zamana ayak uydurmak istiyorsan eÄŸer, kad?nlar? mutlaka hesaba katacaks?n.

Ludilo je spasonosno, jer ?ovek možda postaje manje isklju?iv.

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.