“This feels really good to be included. This feels really good to be popular. But I have learned that that’s not the goal and it should not be the goal. So to all the people out there who are not feeling like you’re fitting in, or that you’re popular or part of the crowd, the goal is to be yourself. The goal is to be exactly who you are. Don’t try to fit in.” Ellen Degeneres – Acceptance speech at the 2021 People’s Choice Awards

“Just remember, if you feel different, or if you feel not understood, don’t you dare give up on who you are,” said Lady Gaga on accepting the American Music Awards’ top honor for favorite pop/rock female artist. “YOU fight like hell for what you believe in,”

“I wrote this song because I wanted it to be about inclusion, about being together,” said, Justin Timberlake, for winning song of the year I Heart Radio’s prize for “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” “If you are black or you are brown or you are gay or you are lesbian or you are trans — or maybe you’re just a sissy singing boy from Tennessee, anyone that is treating you unkindly, it is only because they are afraid or they have been taught to be afraid of how important you are because being different means you make the difference.”