Quotes About Equality

I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me.

Sometimes I felt I was being treated differently to my bandmates because of the colour of my skin.

Do not let anything hold you back - especially the colour of your skin, that's ridiculous and it shouldn't be anything to hold you back.

For them it's normal that people of all colours are equal. When I look at schoolkids, I think that we should all be like that.

There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it.

They send women into combat without being prepared for women in combat. The men resented them being there, and it was just very, very difficult for them, and they had to fight for the respect they were earning. And that's all they want is the respect.

It brings me back to reality. The combine doesn't care if you're a senator or not. It breaks down whenever it wants to break down.

I don't think I've ever been starstruck because they're just, you know... everybody's a person; we all come and go the same way.

I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.

In the comedy world, there's always been one woman to five men. I think that's changing, that we're being respected more as writers and comedians.

You don't get white comedians being asked to talk about their race in their shows. I should be given the same agency to talk about what I want to talk about.

There are a lot of great disabled comedians.

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.

I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?'

If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20?

I am an anomaly in my country. I hope, in the coming years, there will be more women like me.

I wanted to cast a woman as second in command. NBC said no way.

This is America, and everybody has the right to voice and to have an opinion and to have their commentary on things and people.

'Get Out' definitely brought it to the mainstream, but you can look back at the original 'Night of the Living Dead' and that's definitely a commentary on racism.

No one comments if they think a man has lost weight or if they think he needs to eat more.

There have been moments when comments have been made and because I'm strong enough to speak up about it, it's helped me. Having the strength and confidence to speak up about racism is what matters. Some people don't realise that what they are saying is wrong - they think it's acceptable.