Quotes About Inclusivity

The sun shines on everybody. You've got to keep believing.

I chose to work with Stork's Sunday Bake Service as it's a great way to help people out - whether they're baking experts or baking novices, the service assists people with the same passion as me, so I couldn't refuse!

A woman in my local area decided to put on an opportunity for girls to come and play football for £2 each Sunday. That's how I started.

I just want to be part of something people can watch with their family at 8 P.M. on a Sunday night, and be proud of it.

Standing in mass on Sundays with 500 other people, shaking hands with the people around you, catching the eye of small children, entertaining the prospect of causing a scene, to make them laugh, is an opportunity to feel part of something bigger than yourself, and rooted in your community.

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

It doesn't matter if you are in Borough Park in the Hasidic community, if you're in Flatbush in the Korean community, if you're in Sunset Park in the Chinese community, if you're in Rockaway, if you're out in Queens, in the Dominican community, Washington Heights - all of you have the power to fuel us.

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

I'm very proud of 'Every Girl's a Super Girl.' I want all girls to know that no matter what size, color, or shape, whatever they are, that every girl is a super girl! They should be brave, confident, and have fun and enjoy every day!

Super polished signage is not always a good sign. I'm always looking for places that you have to know about to find. Also, just food-wise, if I'm eating ethnic cuisine - I hate that phrase, but still - If I'm eating Mexican food, I'm looking to see that there are Mexicans in the restaurant. They know if the food is being made right.

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

Love has no nationality for me. I have a preference for dark skin but that's just superficial.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

I wanted Luke Cage to very much be an African American superhero rather than a superhero that happens to be black. I felt it was important to give him that cultural grounding but also show that it doesn't make him an obtuse or one-sided character.

Only those are in the right who keep an open door for both good and ill, so that each may come but also leave according to its needs. (Letters on Life)

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it.

Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience.

Be an opener of doors

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

My country is the world and my religion is to do good.

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

I was no longer needing to be special, because I was no longer so caught in my puny separateness that had to keep proving I was something. I was part of the universe, like a tree is, or like grass is, or like water is. Like storms, like roses. I was just part of it all.