Zilpha Keatley Snyder Quotes

We're just welcoming people to our city.

Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.

Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to me. And I want to give back.

The black church will accept anybody.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

We can be more inclusive.

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world.

… the sacred duties of hospitality would be, as in all times, performed towards persons of all opinions

That's the great thing about Comic Con - people are so accepting of one another.

What I like the most about Indore is its people, they are so caring and loving. Also, the city is culturally and economically rich.

I think living in the U.S. it has given me an outsider's perspective on South Africa, and something that makes South Africans shine is our warm heartedness, and how we welcome and accept everyone, we are truly a nation of community, who embraces diversity.

Japan took me in as one of their own and treated me like one of their own.

I love and embrace change.

In just my own neighborhood, you can't go one block without seeing a sign that says, you know, 'Everyone's welcome here,' 'Refugees are welcome here.' I love my Muslim neighbors, and so there is truly this spirit of generosity and compassion and openness that still exists.

When I was a kid, we'd go to the movies, and my parents would reach out to everyone around us in the theater, most of whom could barely afford the movie ticket. They'd hand out popcorn and Milk Duds, strike up conversations with them, lend shoulders to cry on, learn their names, and smile at everyone.

I don't think we are trying too hard. WE is inclusive from the beginning. That's the whole point. We've always been, 'everyone is welcome.' There is no velvet rope, no barrier to entry.

Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they're in.

Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.

I embrace everybody for who and what they are.

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.

You're all welcome in California.

You want people to feel like they belong to something. And not be elitist. You don't want us to be elitist.