Quotes About Inclusivity

It does your mind good to talk to people different from you.

None of us lives unto ourselves. We're each a part of the whole, a member of our community and of God's world.

he—I do wish somebody would think up a new collective pronoun—

Women and music should not be dated.

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different colour, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Travelers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves.

Allah dwells in all men, even the infidel," he says.

I accept you and love you and always will.

For me, hip-hop was a mirror when young-adult books were not. I could see myself in a Nas song more than I could see myself in a book.

I think one of the biggest misconceptions is that only gender non-conforming, non-binary, or trans people have a gender identity. But the truth is, everyone has a gender identity.

I'm Miss USA, not Miss Religion USA.

I never had any question about the direction we were going in at the Girl Scouts. We shared our mission and research with all levels of leaders from the very beginning - a concept I created, using cups and saucers, called 'circular management.' Everyone was on a team; there were no superiors or subordinates. There was respect for all people.

I am passionate about higher education and am hugely impressed by Portsmouth's mission to encourage students from every walk of life to excel.

Making a bougie, expensive beauty brand wasn't helping the mission or very fun for me. We can all be united by that $12 coconut balm. You don't need to charge an arm and a leg.

Our mission is to serve women of color and serve them deeply.

I don't want it to be a mission, but of course I always love to see more diversity in comics. I always love to see more women.

We are open to everyone who wants to contribute in our mission to make West Bengal a glorious state.

I have a great relationship with the whole Missouri athletic department. I made friends with everyone from the administrators to the janitors and everyone in between.

I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.

If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we do, or who share our faith, then we misunderstand what empathy is.

I think there's a misunderstanding that feminism is about bringing men down to bring women up and it's certainly not that.

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.

I think there's this idea that if we put up a play with all African-Americans or all Latinas, or even if we mix it up, then it won't really sell to a mainstream audience. At the end of the day, what's going to drive the story being told is what's going to drive people to the seats.