Quotes About Inclusion

There are plenty of Muslims who live faithfully in the United States.

While there are plenty of reasons that we lost in 2016, there's at least one that we can definitely fix for next time: We can make sure that no one is left behind in where we go, in who we talk to, in what we say, and in what we do.

There's this perception that there's a pipeline problem for women and people of color. I don't buy into that. I think we have a broken doorbell problem, and there are plenty of women and people of color standing at the doorstep trying to get in the door, and nobody's opening it.

There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.

People always say, 'There are plenty of black country artists out there! There is Charley Pride! Darius Rucker!' That's all they can name. They don't understand what we go through, and a lot of people who are fans of traditional country music, as they call it, look at us and aren't going to say, 'Y'all like country music.'

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.

My parents and I always look at movies and just think, 'What's missing?' from the plot to the people of color or diversity in general.

We have to nurture and support the idea of pluralism.

We are increasingly becoming a pluralistic nation.

I think it's just that the fashion industry can only accept one thing at a time. It's like, 'OK, well, if we're going to add plus, then let's keep it hourglass and white.'

There aren't often plus size, very real normal women in film. It's never their story.

I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.

The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few instances where they've selected poems by non-white poets.

Federalism should be a meeting point of all groups.

Most people in their lives do feel like they are outsiders at some point.

I have hidden my race for 22 books. I have hidden behind my married name, which is very Caucasian, because I didn't feel safe coming out with it. I didn't feel that the market would really accept me. I think I felt it's time to start bringing in an Asian-American point of view.

As a heterosexual designer, it is really, really important to have a woman's point of view.

A lot of the time, because we don't have many Latinx scenarios on the landscape, not just in television or film and other media, we haven't gotten the chance to tell our story from our point of view.

I think it's important that the lived experiences and the point of view of L.G.B.T. folks be included in conversations that affect all of us.

I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.

People were very nice to me. They knew I didn't have the money to do figure-drawing classes, so they let me annex the figure-drawing classes that the animators had.

I think the sport is growing and along with it weight classes have to be added.

I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish.