Quotes About Acceptance

People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!

People love to be U.K. music advocates but they don't wanna give other types of music a chance so it can be as popular as this one sound.

To a degree... you wanna make your way in the industry, so you kind of get what you're given at first.

I was so terrified for so long about what people think about my sexuality, and I didn't wanna find myself in a position where I was losing my fans and couldn't do my job.

For me, I try not to set any goals or try and see what's gonna happen, because I don't wanna be let down or disappointed that something didn't happen the way I thought it was gonna happen.

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

I don't wanna be liked just because I'm pretty.

It don't matter if you put 'The Dance' out, or any old George Strait song. Someone is going to think that it's awful. You gotta be able to just sit back and kind of laugh it off and know you're doing exactly what you wanna do, and if people don't like it, then it's not really my place to tell them they have to like it.

Even if you don't like what I do, and you don't like my band, you might have a fan that likes both of us, and why would you wanna alienate them?

I wanted to be pale. I didn't wanna go in the sun, because I was in school with a lot of white girls. I remember one girl said to me, 'You look better pale.' And I was like, 'Well, you're tan!' She was like, 'It's not the same.'

Some people will like it. Some people will hate it. Some people are indifferent. And you have to live with that as an artist. You wanna be appreciated, you wanna be liked, but you know, it's just not realistic for everyone.

Once you know trans people, all you wanna do is protect them. They're not out to hurt anybody. They are trying to live.

I get a lot of really nice messages from girls who are like, 'You make me wanna be myself because people accept it.'

You can do whatever you wanna do. If you're a girl - girl, you get on the football team, okay? If you identify as a boy, you put on some makeup, and you work that stage!

I always wanna feel comfortable in my clothes.

I'm different. Like, I recognize that, and I need to make sure that I am as prepared, that I understand, that I've done everything I can, knowing that people are gonna wanna say, 'She doesn't belong.' I wanna prove to them I do.

Sometimes as friends, you grow apart and you have different visions for what you wanna do and that's OK, there's no love lost.

I don't wanna say I'm growing up, but I definitely feel content.

That's what fashion's really about. Rocking whatever you wanna rock, embracing it and having confidence in it.

I just want people to know me and to love me, because I have no love.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

People don't want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it's different.