Quotes About Inclusivity

Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.

Everything I stood for, forever, since the beginning of time, has been about seeing people as humans. Not as man, woman, white, Hispanic, any of that stuff.

I'm proud to have stood with the LGBTQ community my entire career.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

Without third parties, all forward movement stops. They're essential. They're not just OK. They are absolutely essential.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere - a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer - can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.

It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.

I think the mainstream gaming industry has a very narrow focus on the young male audience. There are plenty of other people out there who enjoy playing games, but if you walk into most game stores, there's nothing on the shelf for them. I mean, imagine if you could only buy cheeseburgers and nothing but cheeseburgers in every restaurant?

I grew up in the Bronx. I used to remember going to all these fancy stores in Manhattan to run errands or whatever, and I felt intimidated, like they did not talk to me because I was from the Bronx. I never want anyone to be intimidated by fashion. Fashion is fun or, at least, should be.

We are going to do extensive market research because it is hard for black women to go into stores and get clothes that fit the way they should.

Muslim girls, we love fashion! Whether we wear the hijab or not - it's our choice - and it's time the industry took note. Finally, fashion stores are open to that idea.

We Filipinos bond over food, music, dance, and shares stories. And to Filipinos, no matter who you are and where you come from, you always have an invitation to celebration.

Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.

It's time for storytellers to tell the stories that have not had the privilege of being shown to the world, and the audience will be there.

I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently.

I am really interested in storytelling in general - nothing is off-limits!

Women bring things to the storytelling of news that is maybe more relatable to the women that are consuming.

We need storytelling from all angles. We need men, women, and trans people participating in all aspects of filmmaking; this is the only way we can depolarise the age-old standard of singular perspective.

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.