Quotes About Advocacy

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.

Too many children and adults go hungry every day.

When I was growing up the National Rifle Association was gun safety and hunting organization. Now it's nothing more than to try to divide people.

People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet.

I would walk into a room, and people would be like, 'Hide the children. Here comes the guy with AIDS.' That's very demeaning, and it really hurts your spirit.

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

I have to defend my husband.

Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.

Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.

I don't think it's exaggeration or hyperbole to say that Pedro Zamora changed the world.

I am a huge fan of gays. They love me, and I love them. They think of me as sort of a gay icon.

I'm friends with Kehlani - she's a LGBTQ icon.

The N.R.A. has effectively turned itself into the Id of the Right.

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

If LGBT people can identify with our story, if they think, 'The Golden Lovers are my team,' I'm good with that.

It's important to celebrate how far we have come while also fighting for justice for those who are still not safe as a result of how they identify.

I am much more interested in defending my ideas than defending my identities.

We need a feminist movement in which the facts of the case trump the identities of the parties involved.

As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities I hold.

Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.

Not every woman has what I have, so if I could do something to help them, that should also be my duty.

We will fight ignorance and a lack of information with information.