Quotes About Acceptance

Some people age gracefully, some people don't.

I know how to be a gracious loser.

I actually remember being in 3rd grade and piecing together in my head that one of my guy friends was homosexual.

I had lice in third grade, and my mom shaved all my hair off.

I knew I was gay since, like, fifth grade.

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.

In seventh grade, I met my best friend Wendi, who is a trans woman.

When I was in the second grade, I learned that I looked different from my classmates.

When you relentlessly work, you gradually get accepted.

I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living.

It took time, and it happened gradually, but by the time I started college, I felt truly comfortable with my body.

I am more than my measurements. I'm not Ashley Graham just because I'm curvy.

Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.

Losing a goal in the last minute? Important, of course it is, but not really in the grand scheme of things.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.

My mother and grandmother created this secret garden where it was OK for boys to play with dolls, and it was OK for little boys to sew potholders.

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

I would model when they wanted me, and as I got older, they wanted an older model. I was quite willing to be mother of the bride at 28. I was quite happy to be on the cover of a grandparents' magazine at 42; I have no ego about that.

They didn't have a lot, but my grandparents taught me the important stuff: that hard work and character, matter. When I got my acceptance (and scholarship) to college, it felt like a dream come true.