Quotes About Inclusion

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't make them smarter, and it doesn't make us married.

Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.

Capitalize on Threshold Moments: When we enter a new group, our brains decide quickly whether to connect. So successful cultures treat these threshold moments as more important than any other.

Make Sure Everyone Has a Voice:

You are part of this group. This group is special. I believe you can reach those standards.

But the successful groups I visited paid attention to moments of arrival. They would pause, take time, and acknowledge the presence of the new person, marking the moment as special: We are together now.

The trick is not just to send the signal but to create engagement around it.

being different is not a problem. It's just being different. but feeling different is a problem. When you feel different, the feeling can actually change the way you see the world.

Music has historically been one of the strongest forces binding together the disenfranchised, the alienated...People who do something together that is antisocial or somewhat off-center enjoy a bond...all misfits, but we are bound together in that.

Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.

The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.

Now that the black experience isn't viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs.

I think that someday we will live in a world where transgender people will be viewed as the multidimensional people that we are.

'I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in, so that the white racist person can become entertaining to a viewer.

As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.

In New York, a 13-year-old Indian girl came up to me crying, saying to everyone nearby, 'This is where I come from.' It's easy to forget that actors have the ability to instill a sense of self in viewers. That's the greatest compliment.

It's important that we're properly represented and for viewers to see all the bits and pieces of being a woman of color.

Shows like 'Empire,' 'Black-ish,' 'Scandal,' and 'How to Get Away With Murder' are expanding viewers' perspectives on what people of color can be like. They're showing more range. They're showing more diversity within diversity.

Times are changing, and it's catching on that the roles on TV and film need to reflect its diverse viewers.

Content pertaining to LGBT community is something the Indian viewers have never been very comfortable watching.

The 'NBA Today' viewers dont need to see the full Andrews sisterhood on every show.

Coming of age as a young queer man of color, it was a rarity to see any reflections of myself portrayed in mainstream media. Turning on the television or going to the movies was an escape into the imagination, yet it did not allow me a place of true connection to what I was viewing on the screen in front of me.

Profiling any segment of society and viewing them as a threat is a sign of intolerance.