Quotes About Equality

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

I honestly can't pick a favorite person I like to work with - that would be like choosing a favorite child!

My philosophy is fight anyone, anywhere. If you're going to be the best then you're going to have to beat them all, so why pick and choose?

We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.

You can't pick and choose the rules depending on the colour of someone's skin. That is what the racists do.

People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it's because we're not using the people that are trying to be entertainers - use more of them.

For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought, 'Anything is possible.'

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

At the end of 'Endgame,' the shield was given to Sam and he said, 'It feels like it's someone else's.' That conversation, for me, was the most important conversation to have. A Black man picking up the shield - what was that going to look like?

From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.

Being an aging woman in Hollywood is no picnic.

When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

If you remain open to great directors who look like you, who know what they're doing and are making impactful films that are destroying these 'blockbuster films,' you can do okay, and everybody can get more of a piece of the pie. But you've got to be open and brave.

There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

I want to see women in pantsuits or two pieces, even something a little bit gaudy. It's so much more exciting than just another nice dress.

If the only thing that was interesting about Jefferson Pierce is that he is African-American, I don't think we'd have much of a show.

Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce, is the American dream.