Quotes About Inclusivity

I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.

I think widespread, online displays of female self-confidence are good for people, especially men, to see.

Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings. To see how we are all of one family is compassion.

I'm in a town where twenty years ago a dyke couldn't buy a dildo but this hadn't ket some mighty queer fucking from going on.

New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.

the heaven to which Jesus points is the spaciousness within ourselves—one that makes room for those who threaten us, for those who are different, even for those who have betrayed us.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.

I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

Thanks, Ms. Liberty! Is that a sari you're wearing? I hope not.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

La conversación es ahora, por necesidad, entre muchos más actores.

yo soy ustedes. Yo soy el pueblo.

Ni la Pensée de l'Autre, ni la Pensée de la Différence ne devraient être possibles pour nous, parce que "rien de ce qui est humain ne m'est étranger".

If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live. Do you think you grew out of the ground?

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.

If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.

Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.

In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams — they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do — they all contain truths

Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains that the other half can soar into skies?