Quotes About Inclusivity

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

I situate myself, and seat myself, And where you recline I shall recline, For every armchair belonging to you as good as belongs to me. I loaf and curl up my tail I yawn and loaf at my ease after rolling in the catnip patch." (From Meow of Myself, from LEAVES OF CATNIP )

Most Americans are very cool people.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS

If you consider yourself a superior type, or even if you be such, let me tell you that the sum total of such superiority, is socially, a minus quantity." I

I love everybody and pity everybody.

without having to consider to what class they belonged. They all belonged to human race which without his thinking about it, all appeared dear to Olenin and they all treated him in a friendly manner way.

How could you not see that I'm a woman? Yes, a woman, who might belong to anyone - yes, even to you,

Benefit performances, bad paintings and statues, philanthropic societies, Gypsies, schools, subscription dinners, carousing, the Masons, churches, books—no one and nothing met with refusal,

I want to look at the work. I don't care if its white or black. I don't agree that "If you're white, you can't write". I want to see what they can do. I also don't believe that because I am a man, I can't write about women. I had better quit writing, if I can't write about women. Why can't women write about men? It's talent that's important.

For Jesus the home is not what defines the table; the table is what defines the home.

A bridge has no allegiance to either side.

as a child, I was an avid reader. And despite reading hundreds of books about straight people, I did not grow up to embrace the heterosexual lifestyle. Similarly, someone who is heterosexual is not going to turn gay from reading a book that features a child being raised by two moms.

When love comes, it comes indiscriminately.

Are you a guy or a girl? I've heard the question all my life. The answer is not so simple, since there are no pronouns in the English language as complex as I am, and I do not want to simplify myself in order to neatly fit one or the other.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.

Universality and particularity do not contradict one another but require one another. How

Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.