Quotes About Inclusivity

I love to be a part of movies, irrespective of the cultural and language barriers.

I'm happy to do good roles, irrespective of language.

I'm a proud feminist, people get irritated with that word... but we need feminism in our country.

Middle-class economics is the simple idea that the economy performs best when the benefits of economic growth are broadly shared, not isolated to a fortunate few.

There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is... We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

I will continue to be open in my music and in interviews and keep those conversations going about the issues we face as an LGBT+ community until those conversations no longer need to be had.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

Manbags are only acceptable if you are Italian, French, or gay.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

When you see me play Jack, I want you to believe that that's a gay character.

I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.

One of the things I like to do is to try to jam with everybody.

I admire Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Strout, D. O. Fagunwa, Sefi Atta, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colm Toibin and Junot Diaz. It's a long list that keeps growing.

Common Goal is quickly growing around the world and I'm proud to help lead the movement forward in Japan.

I was born in France, but I would have been happy to have been born in Senegal or in Romania or Japan. I don't care. This planet is both so small and so big, but I'm part of it.

One thing that brings everyone together are the lyrics. Even if the people singing don't know the Japanese words, they still sing along.

I feel like, of course, Houston has Asian fans and Japanese fans, and Asian fans live all over the place.

I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come to a jazz concert before. One way to do that is by making records that have a lot of different kinds of music on them.

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

I listen to jazz, pop, rock, R&B. It really doesn't matter to me.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.