Quotes About Inclusivity

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

My office has no walls. You can't be removed from your team to be successful. You have to be respectful of others.

We should always be trying to tear down the walls and say, 'I'm no different than you.'

We make artificial divisions everywhere: Democrats and Republicans, black and white, millennials and baby boomers. Even those of us who are against building walls find ourselves pointing accusing fingers at those wall-builders.

We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In music, there are no walls.

We are a nation that does not build walls. We do not believe in building walls. And that defines who we are. We are South Africans, and we do not subscribe to the building of walls.

The global view of cultures is part of my nature. I want to break down the walls between genres, categories, or cultures.

I like to knock down walls and allow others to enter.

I know - firsthand - that California works best when everyone has the opportunity to succeed. It's a lesson that's hard to learn from the back of a limousine, or behind gated walls. And it's a lesson that guided me every day as the president of the California State Senate - the most productive and progressive policymaking body in America.

I'm happy that as many people who wanna listen to us can listen to us.

I don't ever wanna come across too intimidating, so as long as I look like you can come up and give me a hug, that's good.

People love to be U.K. music advocates but they don't wanna give other types of music a chance so it can be as popular as this one sound.

It's cool to see a bunch of brown kids in the crowd. I wanna be a brown artist that they look up to. I didn't see that many artists with my same culture that I looked up to when I was growing up. The industry has always been whitewashed.

We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.

Latinos that are in the industry writing and producing, they can't be afraid to go out there and say, 'I want my lead to be Latino. And I want to talk about this, I wanna write about that.' And Latinos as a whole, as a people in America, need to go out and support.

We're all humans. Any human can tell any human's story. I don't want to have this conversation about black film or white film anymore. I wanna have conversations about film.

Even if you don't like what I do, and you don't like my band, you might have a fan that likes both of us, and why would you wanna alienate them?

I get a lot of really nice messages from girls who are like, 'You make me wanna be myself because people accept it.'

The Divas are not only gorgeous but extremely athletic. Why wouldn't I wanna be a part of that?

You can do whatever you wanna do. If you're a girl - girl, you get on the football team, okay? If you identify as a boy, you put on some makeup, and you work that stage!

I don't want be an underground DJ - don't get me wrong - I just wanna share my music with everybody.

University was fun in many ways - new people, a new town, a bigger Vodka Revs bar. But my three years there also involved navigating a cacophony of questions such as, 'But why isn't there a White History Month? Like, genuinely? I just wanna know?'

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

That's what I wanted 'Pirate Jenny' to be: a queer, revolutionary fairy tale for the people that I love.