Quotes About Inclusivity

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

When you have more than you need, make your table longer, not your fence higher.

You don't need a scale to tell you whether you're allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter what you weigh, you deserve joy and happiness.

Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.

The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

To me our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.