Quotes about Inclusion

Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced.

Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?

Women are breaking down barriers, I'm so grateful and honored to be a part of it.

If I can be in a place where my image is encouraging people to see different people behind the camera, and my image and the images I make can help open up a certain world view, I think that's all a part of a larger spirit of change and progress, and I'm happy to be part of it.

Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

It was really dreadful to be different from other people...and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

Unless we are involved, the problem is not present.

Birds of a feather flock together.