Quotes About Equality

Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.

We don't have a lot of narrative on TV or film, mainstream film, of brown queers. Latina queers, I can't think of that many.

For so long, the narrative - I'm speaking for Latinx - we've been invisible, the ones cleaning and taking care of your kids and doing your lawns.

The narrative needs to change. Asian-American actresses don't want to be the damsels in distress anymore. We don't want to be saved, especially by a white man.

Separation in culture and arts does nobody any favors except for the people in power. That's just it... So I feel like I'm in the business of challenging that narrative.

Women often get ignored from main narrative, especially in films.

For a long time, images of black men with big lips and a round head were used to make us feel inferior, but it doesn't need to be like that, we don't need to self'loathe. We can change the narrative.

Early in my career, I was told I shouldn't try to work in a kitchen, that I should consider serving or managing instead. It was a sad narrative that was given to me, and it came from a society that didn't know better.

The narrative in 2020 must speak about gender equality which will only come from empowering the women who've been given the short end of the stick for far too long.

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.

There are very very few narratives in mainstream that are actually about the woman.

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

We need new narratives in culture, and to do a better job of showing more diversity.

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

Floyd Thompson, a white man, desegregated NASA. Period.

My dad worked with Mary Jackson very closely at one point. I knew Katherine Johnson as well. They were all part of this group of black engineers and scientists within this larger NASA community.

I think our sport is much better off with a successful female driver in NASCAR.

I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.

I think the United States has a nasty human-rights record.

I'm called rude things, and people say nasty stuff. It's disrespectful, and as women we don't deserve that.

I treat everyone the same when I speak to them, I am never rude or nasty.

When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.

No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

I've said it before, but community colleges are the best-kept secret in the nation.