Quotes About Acceptance

Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.

As my mum still candidly says, I was the runt of the litter.

When I was 13, my mum knew that I was gay, and she just always knew.

I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry about whether it's made for men or women. Listen, we all like to put mum's clothes on sometimes. What's important is that it feels right for you.

My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you'd become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven't got the time for it.

One thing I had more than anything, I had love and support from my mum and dad. My mum used to say: 'I don't care if you become a dustman or a doctor, you can be who you want.'

I just knew I had it, but my mum and dad were always great, and it was always a thing I had but a thing that wasn't bad. It was just saying like, I have brown hair, I have brown eyes, and I've got cerebral palsy.

In Mumbai you have people of all cast and religion.

In Mumbai and Chennai there is method in the madness. Despite its large crowds there is a 'live and let live' spirit and a connection with good.

People are living with a 'live and let live' attitude which I like here in Mumbai.

I know that I basically have the same hair as Beaker from 'the Muppets.'

I don't have a muscle body. I don't have a chiseled frame.

I don't have big muscles.

I'm not trying to be with six-pack abs and big muscles and all that. None of that, you know.

Dance music has no gender, class or creeds.

Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents... I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.

When you are in the musical theater and you are someone who looks like me, you are constantly bending yourself, bending your voice to fit the job they've given you.

I grew up in musicals, and if you looked like me and sounded like me, you were the character; you were never at the center of the story.

I really thought I was gonna have a straight gig. But these jazz musicians put their arms around me time and again and said, 'Hey, young fella, you're one of us. Come with us.' That's a big deal when you're young and looking for your way in the world.

You can be a Christian. You can be Jew. You can be a Muslim. You can be atheist. This is your own choice. But the law, the constitution, the law of the people is above God's law. So when somebody arrives in Europe, people need to accept those rules.

I love my heritage both as someone who grew up as a Muslim and as an Indian - it's part of who I am and I would never deny it.

When my cousin sister got married to a Muslim boy, my family was baffled. All the brothers had abandoned her. But I said there is nothing wrong in it. We have not lost our sister. In fact, we got another family member in the form of that boy.

I cannot discriminate on the basis of Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian.

I thought everybody would embrace and understand my reasons for becoming Muslim.