Quotes About Acceptance

I don't look like a chorus girl.

If God wanted be to be black, I'd be black; if he wanted me to be white, I'd be white, so I guess He chose for me to be both and original. That's the way I'm supposed to be.

I'm happy with everything I chose and happy with the way everything went in my life.

If I chose to live a bisexual life or I'm gay or whatever, that's my business.

Obviously, since 9/11, here in this country there has been a resurgence of fear and people feeling distrustful of other people that are different. And what we chose to do was to focus on people coming together, working across those barriers of race, of culture, of religion, and really finding a heart connection.

I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.

Tennis chose me. It's something I never fell in love with.

The key emotion, when you grow up gay, lesbian, bi, trans, is shame. We chose what places we went to, chose the people we talked to, based on the idea of keeping ourselves safe.

I was one of the people that always got chosen last, and I think I bulked up my comedy bone to make up for my lack of friends.

I'm not going to change my name unless I know that the public are behind England and show that they want me to become Chris Cabanga.

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

If Christians want to be the hands and feet of Christ, we need to not judge those that are different from us.

I have friends among the Christians, whom I love, and never for a moment have I thought of attacking their Christianity.

I came out to my dad in Christmas of '94.

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.

I was a chubby kid.

I go to a church that's an interracial church.

Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

Christians are not limited to any church.

We have to start making sure that churches start to talk about... black queerness in a way that's affirming. Because a lot of young black men are in the church, and that's where they start to learn this self-hate behavior.

My father did not drink beer. He said he didn't like the taste, and I was prepared to accept that I wouldn't like the taste either. So I stuck to bottled cider.