Quotes About Equality

'Laramie' is a way in to replacing any hate in your heart with understanding, compassion, and acceptance.

One thing is for sure: that women are far more compassionate, empathetic, sensitive, and emotional in comparison to men.

I don't even compel my wife to wear a mangalsutra or a bindi.

If I were a man, I'd be allowed to play roles that were compelling and drove an audience to an emotional response.

What should be driving the conversation is: What's the story? What's the movie about? Is it a compelling story? And if it is, then you make it regardless of the color of the people behind or in front of the camera.

No woman ever lived who could compete with a man on an equal basis - even a 55-year-old man. There's a lot of talk about Women's Lib. They feel they're worth as much as the guys, but they can't play a lick if they can't beat a 55-year-old guy.

I respect women but do not necessarily believe that women need to compete with men.

Amanda Nunes - I've been telling people that forever - she could compete with a lot of the male bantamweights in American Top Team.

I never felt I was better than anybody, but I always felt I could compete with anybody.

If I was to turn around now and say that motorsport should be segregated, then my whole career would have been for nothing. Every result that I have achieved on my own would stand for nothing, if I couldn't compete against male drivers.

When I'm in the car, if you didn't know my story and just saw me driving, you wouldn't know the difference between me and any of the other drivers. I'm just out there competing.

I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.

I love who I am. But being a woman competing in a male-dominated sport and always trying to push the envelope as a female athlete, you get a lot of comparisons to men and things like that.

I am not competing with anybody from India.

There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.

I do not have a competitive advantage when fighting another woman.

Growing up, I always got 'She's a man,' or 'She plays too hard,' or 'There's just no way that she can be that good because, you know, a girl can't do that.' And I struggle with it a little bit. I'm like: Well, am I going too hard? And then I just realized, like, I'm a competitor.

I'm not a docile, complacent person when it comes to racial aggressions.

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

I'm a black, gay man, and I should be able to live in a world where I'm able to live in the complexity of my identity in a way that is safe and secure, like everyone else.

It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.

It's nice to get compliments from both girls and guys.