Quotes About Acceptance

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That's why me go write a song called 'Illegitimate Children.' It took me years to find out I was one.

My family was one of the few South Asian families in my community in Illinois. Growing up in the '80s, I remember going to the K-Mart with my mom, when she was wearing her sari, and she'd get made fun of. People would ask my mother, 'Were you born with that dot on your head?'

Once I faced the fact I was going to deal with illness for the rest of my life, I got on with what I really wanted to do.

Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Although it might be awful. That's why it's an illusion to think that we really run our lives. We don't.

I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.

I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role.

I don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.

Healthy body image is not something that you're going to learn from fashion magazines.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.

As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today, people are conditioned to accept lies if they are commercial lies. What we don't see anymore is ethics.

I read everything, but particularly, growing up in a household where my mom was black and my dad was white, I remember really loving 'Ebony' and 'Essence.' Those magazines were the only place where I could see images of women who looked like me or my mom.

My dad, bless his heart, always told me I was beautiful, so I was never self-conscious in that way. But when you look at the images on TV, you think you need to look like that in order to be sexy.

I think unretouched images are even more beautiful.

Imagine growing up never feeling loved by your family - the most basic of human needs.

Accepting that my time with Arsenal was over was difficult because I never imagined leaving.

I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?