Quotes About Acceptance

I decided to host a couple of the 'In The Life' programs. And I did that really as a result of meeting a lot of young gay people in the Midwest who really had nothing to relate to. At least I felt this program is presenting them with some options.

I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.

I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.

People can relate more to being honest about your problems, your insecurities, and the things that you find wrong with yourself. Because that's how we really are.

Through the years, I have been overwhelmed by the number of people who have shared how much they relate to my 'Sordid Lives' family, and how many gay men and women used it to come out to their conservative families through the humor of the film.

People are people, regardless of who they love or what gender they relate to.

As a kid, I just felt like I didn't really have anyone to look up to that I felt like I could really relate to, someone that was out and gay and also competing in sports and finding success.

I am an 'other.' As a queer, biracial man who occupies and embodies many different intersections of 'otherness,' I've spent my entire life seeking reflections of myself in the world around me to connect and relate to.

Seeing someone that you can relate to in the media is everything as a child, and a lot of people are not granted that luxury.

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

I was never afraid to try female products. I didn't believe in those gender identities as it related to products.

I saw in my life what pushed a lot of people to drugs was being an outcast to society, so being gay I related to that.

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

It is very, very important that people understand that you can tell different kinds of stories, and they do, related to gay and lesbian issues - especially when you know the people behind them.

I've seen every bad or mean comment related to what I do for a living, and I'm used to it.

As far as girly-ness goes, I never wear makeup, if I've got zits on my face I just let them go. So I've always just related to guys on that level.

I know who I am, and I know what my ambitions are. If one kid sees me on TV or sees me in a movie and relates, then I'm done. That's perfectly fine. That's enough for me.

Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them.

The great drama at the core of American race relations is always the same: Can black Americans ever be truly equal - are they capable of achieving it and are others capable of accepting it?

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.