Quotes About Inclusion

There is no one I'd like to exclude when I design. It's not like I'm trying to design for everyone. Probably can't do that. Yet I try not to exclude anyone.

Love does not exclude; it embraces. If we don't love someone outside ourselves, then very simply, we do not love ourselves.

It is in nobody's interest that groups should find themselves excluded from society.

If it's for everyone, it's not exclusive.

The lamest excuse that I get incessantly is, 'Oh, we're not going ethnic with that role,' so I can't go in for it, or I can't get the part, which is really stupid, because, in today's world, people look different.

If people don't want to cast you, they give you this stupid excuse that it's because you don't fit into a certain image.

I do remember instances where girls would just fawn over me because they liked that I was different - exotic - to them. And they didn't use the word 'Asian' at the time. All of the aspects that make me Asian, they liked.

I don't see myself as exotic.

I've played roles that aren't expected of an Asian.

I grew up in a close-knit community where I was expected to excel, and it was a different experience when I got to the university. There were very few students of color, and those numbers were extremely low in the school of engineering.

We live in such an image-heavy world that not seeing yourself in that landscape can really make it tough to feel human, to feel like you are part of the world.

Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.

When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.

I've seen after-school clubs where parents, teachers and children have got together to write books. They were in a mix of languages; the books told stories of what the parents got up to when they were children and how they arrived in the area, whether it was from another country or from the other side of town.

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

Larger people do not get a lot to play in the theater.

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.

I want to represent all the Latin people. I want to do this for the rest of my life.

I talk to everyone, but most of the people I hang out with are Latin.

I never thought of myself as a woman leader or Latina leader; I just thought of myself as a leader.

'Latina' has become part of the Becky G family, and I feel very proud to say that.

My sons are black, and my daughter is Latina.

The industry just hasn't been thinking outside the box when it comes to Latina women.

I do know that when I started, there weren't very many Latina plus-size models. For a long time, with my look and my body type, I felt like there wasn't a place for me.