Quotes About Inclusion

Like the morning sun, raise the brightness of your love to include everyone.

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

Steven Spielberg's mother, who said to E.T., I don't care where you're from, you're here and you're gonna get bar mitzvahed! Never got a dinner!

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons and a daughter.

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best.

If we can let ourselves, all of us, be united by the simple fact of having a difference, we will be bigger and stronger and more powerful than anyone who might otherwise make us feel small.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?