Quotes About Acceptance

I've never bothered about my color. I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe. I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

When I was growing up, there was hate. I looked around and saw that it was so wrong. I got to go round the world with my rock band, and you can bring harmony.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

The comparison to Willie Beamen - that was pretty harsh, but everything happens for a reason and like I said, you can't control it.

Not to be harsh, but why do we care so much about celebrity acceptance of Christian beliefs?

I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the world, and you realize not everybody loves every little thing you do the way your mom did.

I applied to come to Harvard and they didn't accept me.

Let's face it, I'm a has-been.

People don't hassle me. It's always very friendly anywhere in the world.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.

See I'm used to seeing myself with hair now, so it's not a big deal. Now when I see pictures of me bald I'm like 'ew.' But people are used to seeing me bald so when I'm walking around without the hat on, I see people doing a lot of double takes.

You can love me or you can hate me.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

I don't have a hate bone in my body.

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

I hate that when they call me a transvestite.

I used to hate to be a girl.

There's a lot of hate in the world.