Quotes About Inclusivity

The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.

I believe in decentralized democracy.

I've decided to lead in a way that takes people with me. It's the approach that I think will stand not only our party but also our state in good stead.

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.

I have never made a decision based on race and never will.

I don't dedicate my whole life to being a trans advocate. But I do believe that me, and how I represent myself and how I am honest and open to everybody, I do feel like I'm doing something for the trans community.

What I write comes from a place of deep love, and a deep understanding of all kinds of otherness.

The fact I've been in every lineup of Yes has been more by default than design.

For a white writer not to be able to step into the shoes of people of color confuses me. That should be the default - many people of color have to step into the shoes of white people. Women have to step into the shoes of men.

In Shadow and Bone,' Alina's race is never specified. But that entire book is basically built on a white default. My life has never been entirely white or entirely straight, so I had to really step back and question why I'd chosen to write my first novel that way.

Everybody should be defended, and people should be willing to stand with them to let them know that an attack on them is an attack on me.

With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.

We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

We don't really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn't define who they are.

Love is love. Family is family. A family's sexuality does not define the wonderful parent that they can be for their children.

Leadership is so defined by men, and we need to revise that - we need to be able to say that the people we honor are not the conquerors but the peacemakers.

A film is a film, and shouldn't be defined by language.

I have grown to understand that no matter where we come from, human beings, at heart, are the same. Defining ourselves based on race, religion, and ethnicity is like betraying that.

Hopefully, if we stop using the term plus-size we can just create a broader definition for what a model is.

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college.

Doing politics over water is not good as people from Punjab and Haryana are also our own like that of Delhi. Everyone should get water.

Young people can sometimes use language either thoughtlessly or deliberately, particularly around the use of the word 'gay.'

I will always demand the right for theatre to talk about anything and anyone. Without exception. None.