Quotes About Inclusivity

We all have a heartbeat.. We all have a soul.. We are all human. And that's all that matters

My audience is my audience and everybody in it forms an alliance every night. You perform for the entire crowd -- it's not about singling anyone out. And if your work is very, very daring and interesting, then smart people come to it, whether they're gay, straight, black, white, men, women. I mean, you gotta be able to get underneath what's really going on culturally, and then you're always gonna have a smart audience sitting in front of you.

Some people become professional soccer players because we are all the same.

The "Ofrendas" exhibition [within the 1987 art exhibition "Hispanic Art of the United States"] emphasized the fact that religious cosmologies and practices of Latin America are not minor/minority but rather espoused by vast numbers of people who are not white Protestant males. Unwittingly, perhaps, the exhibit suggested that we drop the words cult and superstition , as applied to non-European spiritual practices, and substitute the word religion .

I can't bear literary snobbery.

New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.

I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate.

I think it's about time that we represent all women on the catwalk because that is a part of fashion. The way I see it, there's no wrong way to be a woman.

Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.

My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

These are 8- and 12-year-old kids. It doesn't matter how they got here. It is time to show a little compassion

When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched.

Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

The time is coming when we will go beyond narrow religious confines and embrace a spirituality that will include the best of all religions and transcend narrow boundaries.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

Really annoys me any time I see Asian fusion too. Asia is a big place; which Asian are you talking about? You notice it's never Uzbek or Tajik food. It's Thai, and it's generally insulting.

When I see two guys kissing, I'm like, how come I can't kiss one of those guys? They look like they're having a good time.

Never be mean to another female about her appearance. Especially if it's something she has no control over . . .