Libba Bray Quotes

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

I think our big tent is our greatest strength.

I've learned it's important to never lock yourself down into one thing - you need to remain fluid and open to all possibilities.

America at its best is inclusive and not exclusive.

Our message, to people around the country and around the world, is this: Apple is open. Open to everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or who they love.

I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.

You cannot limit this country by boundary lines.

It is like a wide embrace, gathering together all those who have searched for words of hope. It accepts all great Prophets gone before, ’ it destroys no other creeds and leaves all doors open...

Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.

In every relationship, you have to be a team.

At Afropunk, everyone can be themselves, and I think that's beautiful.

Will we be a nation where there's only one way to love, one way to look, one way to live? Or will we be a nation where everyone has the freedom to live openly and equally?

Young people - and skaters - are very, very open-minded.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.

Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

I've gone to normal clubs, straight clubs, and I've gone to gay clubs to party with my friends and fans. There's no difference. I have nothing to prove. I'm very comfortable in my own skin, and I'm thankful to have as many close gay friends as I have, people who have been so supportive in my life and have always been there for me.

It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.

I believe in everyone staying as they are, and when you meld together, you get something more accurate and democratic.

Here in America, we don't give in to our fears. We don't build up walls to keep people out.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.