Quotes About Equality

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

I just love the idea of doing an all-female play on Broadway.

We really broke down some doors for women and for musicians in general. It was just go out and form a band and don't care what anyone thinks.

I want barriers to be broken down for women.

I will be a broken record for justice.

So many fantastic male characters are brooding, angry, and not nice; that doesn't happen as much with women.

Brook and I both own a house. He doesn't do any of the work to maintain it, clean it.

It's time for a brother to be Bond.

My father worked every day; my brother and sister had to travel many hours to study, so Atletico were for people like us.

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.

I never got the chance to meet Linda Brown; there were several times we were supposed to meet or be on the same stage together, but life gets in the way, and it never happened.

People have black skin, people have brown skin. I have both.

My blood's not red or blue - it's brown.

When I was growing up, I only saw really brown people on 'The Cosby Show,' and they were rich, and their parents were doctors. It wasn't like my home.

When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.

Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do.

I was well into adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay. It took years of struggle and growth for me to recognize that it's just a fact of life, like having brown hair, and part of who I am.

In America in general... I know there are a lot of parts where may be it is not that great to be brown or black.

I love that brown people are being more and more represented on screen.

It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.

The broad brush of stereotyping is what least appeals to people of color.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

No one's pro-police brutality.