Quotes About Equality

I'm all about the crossover. The role doesn't necessarily have to be white or Latina or black. It could be anything. But it's hard in Hollywood, because sometimes it's all about the box office. Or all about looks and things like that. It's not about the story that they have to tell.

The argument by the anti-gay-marriage crowd is so absurd, so internally contradictory, and so awash in unproven assertions that it is difficult to take it as anything more than a construct cobbled together by people who just don't like those people.

I think it would be a little bit difficult for two girls to share a crown.

You don't need a title or a crown or a sash to be able to stand together with other women.

I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

Racism is here and will always exist, but we can't use it as a crutch.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

When I was growing up, I wanted to see girls like me on television and in movies - strong girls who aren't crying over their relationships or whatever.

I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

I'd like to see drag really cultivate its political roots.

Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them.

People are equal, cultures are not.

This idea that you can 'cure' homosexuality is appalling and simply not true.

We just want the sport to be taken seriously and given the best possible chance for current and future players to be the best they can.

I believe very deeply that the world would be a better place if it weren't run as it's currently run, which is by men.

I don't wish to curse anyone. I just feel bad when women, especially, try to sabotage the image of another woman.

Yes, I'm a 'curve' model, but to be completely honest, I feel like there should be no separate sections in fashion - there should just be one.

We urgently need to address the assumption bound up in our employment laws and custody arrangements that women are the 'natural child carers' and men don't really want much to do with their children.

If you were just to look at Lockheed Martin, you'd see a lot of women in senior roles in our company and, not only that, our customers, so I don't consider it an old boys' club.

I think it is important for girls to see movies where it is not all just about 'the boy' or it's simply being about 'the relationship' or 'Am I pretty enough?' or 'Am I cute enough?'.

I think screenwriters, I think editors in the cutting room - they have a lot of responsibility that we don't think about, but they could cut the coverage of an Asian person to focus on a white person because, unknowingly, they think that white person has more to say or is more interesting.