You're welcome to join, Elena, if you'd like to bury the hatchet.

Well, he's in some private meeting right now, but you're welcome to wait for him in his study.

Some of you might disagree, some of you might have scathing but accurate critiques of me and my points, and of course, I welcome all negative feedback.

Many communities encompass drumming in their day-to-day activities, and still do up to date, from childbirths to initiation ceremonies, welcoming ceremonies, marriages and even burials.

But I think there's another debate to be asked, which is the level of control we have over our tax money, that what costs us 10 pounds in one context can be a curse; what costs us 10 pounds in a different context, we may actually welcome.

(Applause) DK: It turns out, maybe not surprisingly, that students like getting the best content from the best universities for free.

There are waves running along the side of the building, and these squiggly canopies over the entryway, and the whole building bends toward the entrance in a welcoming gesture.

So if any of you out there like the sound of that and have a law like that in your country, I know that Seb would love to hear from you about collaborating and getting that into your country.

It's ridiculous not to have a sound immigration policy to welcome those who want to come here and be part of this great nation, or we can send back home with an education to help their people rise up out of poverty.

Dwarf Fortress is like the holy grail of this kind of massive multiplayer online game, and in fact the two Adams brothers were in Reykjavík, and they were greeted by a standing ovation by all the Eve Online fans.

And we love the idea of the demographics of highly educated twentysomethings, people with choices, choosing Oklahoma City in large numbers.

And so I think that we should embrace technology because it is an essential part of our journey in finding out who we are.

I'm not talking about the stuff that falls from the sky and hits you on the head.

(Laughter) (Applause) And it's been amazing, because the series was so welcomed into the reading lives of children, and they sent me the most amazing letters and cards and artwork.

Look, we put online almost every week new, updated series on the World Top Income Database and we will keep doing so in the future, in particular in emerging countries, and I welcome all of those who want to contribute to this data collection process.

The respect is stepping forward, not stepping backward, and I really think that by engaging your body in the moment, in the ceremony, in the places, people welcome you and understand your energy.

And that made me able to cope with change, indeed, eventually to welcome change, though I'm told I'm still very difficult.

I wish I could tell you that there would be a feminist welcoming party for you, or that there's a long-lost sisterhood of people who are just ready to have your back when you get slammed.

I accepted enthusiastically, and a few weeks later, a package arrived containing not one, but two books -- Rafidah's choice from Malaysia, and a book from Singapore that she had also picked out for me.

In 1956, during a diplomatic reception in Moscow, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev told Western Bloc ambassadors, "My vas pokhoronim!"

And then the imam made an announcement, thanking and welcoming our guests, because half the congregation were Christians, Jews, Buddhists, atheists, people of faith and no faith, who had come not to attack us, but to stand in solidarity with us.

The project had a great welcome -- invitations, exhibitions, physical formats, galleries and museums...

I've noticed that movements which welcome women into leadership positions, such as the one I documented in a village called Budrus, were much more likely to achieve their goals.

In that moment, the community of Budrus realized what was possible if they welcomed and encouraged women to participate in public life.

By advocating for self-determination and respect for all of us, we can shift society's reluctance to embrace diversity and start to celebrate the myriad ways there are to have a body.

The National Security Advisor was actually spewing expletives on the tarmac -- no red carpet, kind of left out the bottom of the plane along with all the media and everybody else.

There was a library in San Francisco that did an amnesty day last year, and they welcomed back 5, 000 users who had been blocked.

So you may use your power to build walls and keep people outside, or you may use it to break barriers and welcome them in.

Not only do we shame, blame and reject them for atrocities that they had absolutely nothing to do with, we re-traumatize them, when we're supposed to be welcoming them into our countries.

So when you tell a story and your identity is strong, you can welcome the stranger, but when you stop telling the story, your identity gets weak and you feel threatened by the stranger.

And if that happens, we will become strong enough to welcome the stranger and say, "Come and share our lives, share our stories, share our aspirations and dreams."

Among the Yoruba, we have a saying, "Èkó gb’olè, ó gb’ọ̀lẹ, " which can be translated to mean that Lagos will welcome anyone.

Isn't that also the best for us if they compete freely, since more competition drives more quality, lower prices, more innovation?

What kinds of people would join "a global community... welcoming people from every discipline and culture, who seek a deeper understanding of the world, and who hope to turn that understanding into a better future for us all"?

They leave us with a call to action, and a reminder that everyone is welcome in the fight against injustice: "I ask for the movement to continue… and if a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door…”

And finally, I think we have to do something that's not really -- it's almost unacceptable to say this -- which, we have to begin to design the future.

Since I was new to the team, I asked my colleagues, and they said, "Well, the people who are dying today are from a generation when women and people of color weren't invited to the table to make a difference.

Instead of "no diving" and "no running, " how about "celebrate cellulite, " "body policing prohibited, " and "intolerance not tolerated."

While we initially heralded the Internet as the fantastic new marketing device that was going to solve all our problems, we now realize that the Internet is, if anything, too effective in that regard.