Quotes About Inclusivity

To me, being a black woman and being beautiful are not mutually exclusive.

Anyone who loves football can also be involved in music; the two aren't mutually exclusive.

My generation, we're so diverse in so many ways.

Most of the people that I spend my time around are people who listen to a whole lot of different kinds of music.

I do films for the common man and identify myself one among them.

I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

A lot of people think that I am trans but I'm not trans. I am a gay male with hair and nails. So if you say 'he' or 'she' it doesn't matter. I know who I am.

I had a lot of friends for a long time who were gay, and I didn't even realize it for awhile. Even in my mid- to late 20s, I was still pretty naive about it.

Now, you may not have known this from my name, Lopez-Cantera, but I'm Jewish.

Jalen is a universal name, and girls also are named Jalen.

I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.

'Crime Story' was where I learned that I needed to get to know every crew member: what they did and what their names were and who their families were and whatever things they would give me.

You know how on movie sets there are specific chairs for each person? I hate that. We don't have names on our chairs. We have five chairs. Anyone can sit on them. I think the idea of names on chairs on a set is terrible. It's so dumb. So we got rid of that.

Let's stop reflexively comparing Chinese writers to Chinese writers, Indian writers to Indian writers, black writers to black writers. Let's focus on the writing itself: the characters, the language, the narrative style.

I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

I think it's important that science just doesn't stay within narrow boundaries.

It's good for people not to have a narrow mind. Good music is good music.

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

We want to grow NASCAR.

In NASCAR, we pride ourselves on being accessible to fans.

It's something we're trying to change and NASCAR is as a whole trying to bring in a younger fan base, a different-looking fan base, we're trying to change the whole demographic of the sport. Me going out to do that is something I'll take responsibility for.

We want everybody in this country to be a NASCAR fan, and you can't do that by being insensitive in any one area.