Quotes About Acceptance

I'm so thankful that at this point, even if you see my face or know who I am, it doesn't matter, because you already love the music.

A few people have asked me about the women agenda on country radio. I can only speak for myself on this, and all I have to say is that I'm very grateful, and thankful, that country radio has been so automatically accepting, and supportive, of me and my music.

I thought it would be so cool to be a musician, but I always thought it was impossible, because I would never be accepted in mainstream media. The fact that I'm able to tour North America and around the world is an incredible blessing, and I am thankful every time I do it.

I'm thankful to be a mixed racial person in skateboarding. I'm part Japanese too, so when I go over to Japan everyone loves me there, when I go somewhere where there are a lot of Black people they'll love me there too.

I was accepting of the fact that I probably won't ever race in it again. I'm thankful that I did get that second chance and I was able to do good things through it.

All good things come to an end eventually, so I was just thankful that I was even able to get drafted.

I'm thankful for the opportunity to be somewhere where I just feel I can be myself and play ball and not have to worry about all the other stuff that comes along with it.

Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.'

What people like to comment on a lot is that I grew up in a religious family; my father is a pastor, and now I'm playing the devil. Thankfully, my family see the humorous side of the job.

Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn't like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, she's the biggest athletics fan out there. She's a real expert, and she's got all the heptathlon books.

Thankfully, I've never had anyone tell me that I needed to lose weight or change my appearance.

I was bullied in school, but thankfully, I was surrounded by amazing family that love me and kept my head high and didn't allow me to fall into depression because of it.

I've lived in Hawaii long enough now where people don't make a big deal about me being there; I'm just a part of the community, thankfully.

It is rare for an artist to get acceptance by the north as well as the south audiences, and I have thankfully managed that.

For every musician there's a certain point when your kids get to 13 or 14 and you become an embarrassment. They don't want you to drop them off at school and they don't like that you are different from the other parents, but thankfully mine are over that now, and are pretty cool with what I do.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

You tell me I play like a man, and I'll tell you, 'Hey, thanks.'

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.

The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

I feel like I'm opening the doors for more people. That they feel more comfortable being out. Especially in the hip-hop community.

If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.

I don't really think about male and female; if something's right for me, it's right for me, and it doesn't matter what it is - maybe that's what it took for me, a woman, to break down the doors.