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Quotes About Inclusion

Belonging was not a seer's wyrd.
~ Nicola Griffith
Most importantly for me, historical accuracy also meant this could not be a story of only straight, white, nondisabled men. Crips, queers, women and other genders, and people of colour are an integral part of the history of Britain—we are embedded at every level of society, present during every change, and part of every problem and its solution. We are here now; we were there then. So we are in this story.
~ Nicola Griffith
They both turned to look at me and I wondered how a person could become the outsider so fast.
~ Nicola Griffith
Whoever you are, Peretur, I would have you.
~ Nicola Griffith
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
~ Nicolas Sarkozy
What kind of people belong to this world?
~ Unknown
So don't tell me that I can't fit in. My heart beats like a talking drum.
~ Nikki Grimes
How good is different? I search stories for someone who resembles me. If it weren't for books and Joe, "different" would just be lonely.
~ Nikki Grimes
We're like the sea, people our waves Necessarily we are associated with everyone.
~ Unknown
E]ven today, when confident and self-affirmative lesbian identities have emerged and are available to women, images of `lesbianism' are still regularly appropriated by a male heterosexual pornographic imagination which cannot accept that this is one party to which men are not invited and at which their presence is not necessary.
~ Unknown
That's what it says in my IEP, which is more letters. More initials that define who I am.
~ Unknown
I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.
~ Unknown
Philosophy is really homesickness: the urge to be at home everywhere.
~ Novalis
Flight from the communal spirit is death!
~ Novalis
The pedicure Regina executed herself. She wanted Betsey to feel relaxed and cared about. The way all little Negro girls should feel. Not cramped or out of place, or funny-looking or easy. Just lovely and well-loved.
~ Ntozake Shange
Jane didn't miss white folks, she didn't like white folks, she tried not to think about them. She kept her world as colored as she could. There was enough of it. From Langston Hughes to Sojourner Truth, her children's worlds were hardly deprived
~ Ntozake Shange
Time passed. Kevin and I became more a part of the household, familiar, accepted, accepting. That disturbed me too when I thought about it. How easily we seemed to acclimatize.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Embrace diversity. Unite ----- Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those that see you as prey. Embrace diversity or be destroyed.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again." He
~ Octavia E. Butler
Help us to make America great again
~ Octavia E. Butler
Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.
~ Octavia E. Butler
On the street, people are expected to fear and hate everyone but their own kind, but with all of us armed and watchful, people stared, but they let us alone. Our neighborhood is too small for us to play those kinds of games.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Poor doesn't matter as much if you can make a place for yourself and be respected.
~ Octavia E. Butler
As for the beatings, the tarring and feathering, and the destruction of "heathen houses of devil-worship," he has a simple answer: "Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.
~ Octavia E. Butler