Quotes About Stigma

I too have daughters, and it saddens me that people think of daughters as a burden.

I could be completely mad and sound like David Icke, but I just find people with blue eyes colder, less passionate, and more calculated people.

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

I don't think anyone's ever thought I was a drug dealer.

For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.

In some parts of Appalachia, actors and acting are still not considered quite decent.

I'm not much of a numbers guy, and yet that's the way I'm defined a lot.

Early on, I played a Chinese delivery person, and even that, which was very innocuous, felt like I was somehow betraying myself. I felt very self-conscious on set doing that role, with a crew that was almost entirely white.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.

Being depressed in black culture is not a thing. I just decided not to tell nobody, not even my friends.

I have money in my bank account. I have my own apartment. I have friends. I still go through and experience depression. You don't have to be ashamed of it.

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

I never thought I'd be somebody dealing with anxiety or depression.

Just like everybody else, celebrities have brains and those brains get conditions - addiction, depression.

Depression is not a choice.

Yes, this a disease, and men suffering with depression need help. It takes the right person to break through to someone who has been brave enough to reach out.

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

When I describe myself as fat to people, whether it's a driver, anywhere around the world, or a friend, and I'm like, 'Oh, it's just because I'm fat,' people are like, 'Don't say that about yourself.'

I was diagnosed as bipolar.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another.

Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.

All I'm really doing is talking about going on diets and... just about being a big guy. Why should that be any different from a comic that says, 'I was an alcoholic,' or, 'I was in a bad relationship?'