30 Quotes About Inclusivity

those whose business it is to open doors, so often mistake and shut them

We’re the ones that have always been excluded, afraid to be ourselves. And now what? We get our own scene and start pushing people to the sidelines? Does that make sense? Fuck that. Fuck being as small as they are. Be big. Be bigger than them.

As a community, we should seek to create an environment that is inclusive of varying perspectives. Flat out, it makes us stronger. Diversity of thoughts and experiences opens us up to new ideas or to approaching old ideas in new ways.

If the quality of my Christianity lies in my ability to be more inclusive than the next pastor, things get tricky because I will always, always encounter people—intersex people, Republicans, criminals, Ann Coulter, etc.—whom I don't want in the tent with me. Always. I only really want to be inclusive of some kinds of people and not of others.

Ask what love would want

All too often we as a Black community allow systemic entities to do character reporting and judgment casting on protests, uprisings, our slain, and family/friends of our slain. This is all an attempt to distract the public from the injustices that got us there in the first place.

If you don't have an anti-racism plan, you plan to be racist.

If you don't have a plan for inclusivity your plan is to be exclusive.

A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act, even if I want to tell a 'silly love story.' The fact it exists through my gaze is radical.