Quotes About Inclusivity

It can be bad if the winners try to stop others from following them, pulling up the ladders behind them.

You get a lot of borderline cases in libraries.

I don't know why it's taken me so long to realise, but now it's so obvious that underneath the invisible barriers and expectations we have constructed and placed on each other, we are all brothers and sisters; we are all just pink flesh and bone.

There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.

There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

The Grammys are very wide-ranging but it's still within the Western world of music. So it would be lovely if that opened up more.

In the public mind, when they think of politicians, sadly they probably tend to think of men in grey suits doing work behind closed doors at Westminster. I want to get away from the idea.

No more top-down politics with Westminster dictating what's right for every community. We must all be partners in designing a better future for our country.

When you look at Westminster you think of it as pale, male and stale and I hate that so much.

I made 'Whale Rider', I saw that to be specific and authentic is to be universal, and I've continued to work in an identical way ever since.

When I made 'Whale Rider' - of course, I'm not Maori and have no business, as a white girl, telling people how to be in this movie - I started by learning the language, as best I could.

No matter what, if my son was gay, I'd treat him like a king.

On the gay issue, hey, you know what, if people love each other, Jesus, I mean come on.

I wonder why it has taken such a long time in our country to understand or look at the potential of plus-size models. So what if they are plus-size, they are confident and have equal enthusiasm for life.

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.

It shouldn't matter what you're into, how you look - you can achieve whatever you aspire to.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.

'WhatsApp' began as a simple idea: ensuring that anyone could stay in touch with family and friends anywhere on the planet, without costs or gimmicks standing in the way.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the word 'curvy' or 'plus-size' because there are women who identify as that, and I'm not offended by it whatsoever because I don't feel like being bigger is anything wrong.

As an actor I have no hang-ups whatsoever about cinema. It can be mainstream, art, regional or national.

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.