Quotes About Acceptance

That's the biggest thing I struggle with. We could never hope to represent every gay person in America. There will be people who will say, 'Well, my experience of being gay isn't like that,' to which I can only say, 'That's fine.'

I've been fat since fourth grade and bullied for it, but I still knew I couldn't represent every kids' experience.

It's hard to accept yourself when you live in a world where nobody is like you, or you feel like nobody is like you because there's no representation.

Curvy and plus-size models will just be models once it becomes more normalized and we get more representation and people are used to it and not shocked by it.

The only way to really change perceptions, to break down barriers, break down homophobia, is through representation. That's definitely not something I had as a kid. I never saw a gay athlete kissing their boyfriend at the Olympics. I think if I had, it would've made it easier for me.

As much as I think that in the future we won't need labels, at the moment they're really important. So I'm making myself embrace that. I truly am proud to be queer. Even watching 'Queer Eye' is something that inspired me to say that. So that's the power of representation.

I hope that we always have diversity, that we have equality and representation every step of the way.

I believe that young lesbian women need to see themselves on TV. They need to see the representation, especially young black lesbians.

Sometimes you have to see the thing to know that it exists. Maybe there's a queer person in a town, but they don't feel comfortable or safe coming out, frankly, and the only representation they feel that they have or connection they have is on television or in a movie, and that's really powerful.

I would definitely love to see a queer rom-com because representation matters. It does so much to help normalize things in the mind of society.

Trans women are a part of the female population and I think that they deserve a respectful representation.

I fully believe that representation and inclusion matters... and that's why on all of our films, we've featured diverse casts, and that actually is true for 'Kubo' as well.

Since becoming aware of the need to be inclusive, I've tried to make my stories broader and more representative of our world.

I'm representing the curvy girls and that's great.

It's just an amazing feeling to know that I'm representing for every plus-size woman out there.

I'm representing my country whether they like me or not.

I love my body. I love representing people who aren't stick figures, because people aren't.

I get reached out to by a lot of people who just thank me for representing them and their friends. Just showing people like them on TV. It's just really awesome to hear from them.

I'm representing for the plus-size community and the plus-size industry. It feels amazing to be able to be the voice that we need.

My old man works in the postal service, my mum in a hospital and my brother in a factory. They're my family and when I play rugby I'm representing them. But coming out was different. More than anyone, I feared for my father. I used to be a postman myself and so I know that working environment.

Broadway is at its best when it represents as many people as possible.

In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.