Quotes About Acceptance

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

I don't live with my head in the sand - I see people's flaws. I don't like everything my friends do or say. But one, I don't judge or reprimand them to their face because it's not my job to tell them they're screwing up; it's just my job to love them.

The luxury of not getting judged for 'loving' who you want to love should be given to everyone - including women.

I have a lot of female fans, and I feel like in this day and age, as a drag queen who is a female impersonator, I need to show my love and respect to all those female fans out there, especially my young ones who are learning about how to love themselves and love who they are in every way.

To tie in the whole Christianity aspect, as Christians, we're taught our whole lives to love people no matter what, and in country music, that's okay; that's something that's accepted. That's why it's a great genre for us, because we can speak about all kinds of different things.

You do not have to agree with me to love me.

Will we be a nation where there's only one way to love, one way to look, one way to live? Or will we be a nation where everyone has the freedom to live openly and equally?

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.

When I was on 'The View,' I went backstage to Whoopi Goldberg's dressing room, and she told me, 'People are going to love what you do, and people are going to hate what you do, but you have to keep doing it. You have to stand up and do what you know is true, despite what people are going to say.' And I'm taking that into every aspect of my life.

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

Something that I've learned to love about myself is my freckles. I used to absolutely hate them; I even looked into ways I could get them removed.

To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.

People should have their rights to be who they want to be and love who they want to love.

I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.

It's ridiculous that people aren't allowed to love who they love, have families, and have the same life as straight people. It's infuriating.

God is pretty explicit in what we're supposed to do - what man and woman are for. Now, at the same time, we're supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins.

Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?

In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.

I think most polling shows that most Americans agree that when it comes to employment that, you know, people should be really judged by, you know, their competency and not, you know, who it is they choose to love or who they're in a relationship with.

There's that thing that if you want to have any kind of lasting love, I think you have to love the whole person and not just the parts of them that you choose.

The best way to survive life is - never fret over what you don't get. There's a bigger plan for you.

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.