Quotes About Inclusivity

I just wanted to kind of break down those gender stereotypes and just say everyone's equal, everyone's their own person, everyone's their own individual.

I don't feel that any kind of narrow stereotypes are representative of the work I've done, nor the range of the audience that work has found. I've played lots of different roles, and they've connected with lots of different people.

I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.

I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

You don't need to be a stereotypical basketball player to be successful. You can be yourself. You can kick it with artists, you can kick it with nerds.

There has been a kind of stereotypical 'gamer dude' that has been representative for the gamer community in the years past. But I want to spearhead or be a part of changing that.

I'd like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course, play the stereotypical ninja, the martial arts master, the accountant, the doctor, but we can be more than that!

I don't think Steve Scalise has a racist bone in his body. Steve and I have worked on issues that benefit poor people, black people, white people, Jewish people. I know his character.

I think the Apollo has always been the people's performing arts center and reflected the community, whether it is Stevie Wonder or Tito Puente.

Stevie Wonder is obviously the master at political music that's for everybody, that's still joyful.

We are really excited about being stewards to the community that is Minecraft.

Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America.

Human beings should stick together. Honestly, if I see a red-haired person with blue eyes now, I say, 'Is your granny black?'

It doesn't matter where we're from, we all have to stick together and help each other out as performers and as human beings.

We're just very passionate about girls sticking together and the sisterhood of things.

The great thing about 'Hamilton,' for me, is so many people have been exposed to and are more open to hip-hop and certain artists, despite the stigma that had before been attached to it.

The ball scene was never really only gay people. I think people have this notion that if there's a man hanging around a gay man, he must be gay, but that's just stigma. Back in the day, it was the same; there were lots of different people there: gay, straight, whatever. They did not care what they were called because they knew who they were.

I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen of the world; that's what I prefer.

I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot.

It's great to have the opportunity to reach out to people that don't know much about snowboarding so they can see it and get stoked on it.

Whatever people can stomach, I say go for it.

I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.

Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, and I love that. It's cool to have different foods from all over the world within a stone's throw of my house.

Last century we needed lawyers; this century we need big, broad coalitions. When extremists decide to attack all our communities, they must hope that there will be infighting. But we have stood all for one and one for all. That is how we will win.