Quotes About Acceptance

Nobody escapes age and gravity.

When you're biracial, people sort of make you gray - you're not black, you're not white, you're sort of gray; you're 'other.' And I'm fortunate to have parents that were strong enough to say, 'You're not 'other.' You're special.'

I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.

I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

I'm a great believer in eccentrically-shaped modern families. Because I've seen them work so well. And as long as everyone loves each other, it can work very well.

I'm a great believer in the idea that if it's meant to be, it will be.

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

With Cleveland, I think they did a great job in knowing what their team needed, and when I came, I just did my job, and they fully embraced me.

Coach Smart did a great job of just letting me come to terms with myself as a basketball player and a person.

People loved me because I'm a great person to be friends with, but when it comes down to drag, I didn't want them to think badly of me.

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.

If everyone loves you for the person you are, let alone your music is incredible, I think that's a really great place to be.

That's the great thing about Comic Con - people are so accepting of one another.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

I came out to be on television as a person, as a woman. And this can be a great thing for my community.

It doesn't matter what a family looks like as long as you get the love, support and encouragement to be whatever you want to be and do great things in life.

I'm very happy to be part of a generation where you don't have to say that you're gay. It's just like, 'I'm dating a dude,' or, 'I'm dating a girl,' and I love it. I think it's a great time.

I've had a great time doing it - being able to say yes to a couple of amazing shows.

Being robbed is a really great way of editing your belongings.

The greatest thing we can do is to give each other a safe space to truly, truly be ourselves in the world.

When I came to this country, people told me that if I wanted to teach and work here, I would have to take speech lessons to lose my accent. But it helped me greatly, because when people turned on the radio, they knew it was me.