Quotes About Acceptance

I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race.

I care deeply about 'Drag Race' and drag. It's my life and it changed my life.

I was really grateful that The Vixen, especially, was on season 10 because she was having conversations about race. You can't ignore it, especially in the drag community, in the 'Drag Race' world.

During the race there's only so much you can do. Whatever's going to happen is going to happen.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.

We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

The work that needs to be done now is to diversify the picture of LGBTQ people so that people can see that we come from all races, different genders; we have trans people.

If you come to my shows, there's all kinds of different races, all kinds of different people.

We come from a very mixed family. We're a bunch of different races, my family. So it's very normal for us. I don't know why we're accepted. Are all of us accepted or just me?

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.

Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn't matter if you are black, white, Hispanic, he's the president of all races.

I think that TV and film are very important mediums to show what people of all races, ethnicities, sexual orientations can do, and I think that, as women, we are still in the process of proving what we can do, what we can accomplish, and who we are.

In my experience, I've loved all races. It's not like I can only be with my people.

I have to accept risk as a racing driver.

I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.

I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are.

Well, it's a day-to-day thing. I don't feel comfortable in my body today at all. Any woman will tell you she has her good and bad days and today I did not feel like I looked my best or felt radiant inside or outside.

The most radical thing about our lives is getting to be in a visibly filled-out queer crowd every night.

I understand that a lot of people can't connect with my music, because it's a radical proposal and a personal proposal. There will be people who can connect with it, and many that can't.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God.

I'm a naturally open person - some might say radically open.