Quotes About Acceptance

People would beat me up after school; they would throw names at me. Children are brutal... Being different when you're a child is always a challenge.

I remember, growing up, it wasn't sexy to be African. We got called names.

I feel for people with crazy names. It's been a challenge, but if that's my struggle, I can live with it.

I love myself. I'm not saying this in a narcissistic way.

I'm the first transsexual fighter in MMA. Like, ever. It's always going to be part of the narrative, but I'll deal with it. I'll try my best to use it to my advantage.

I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.

It's good for people not to have a narrow mind. Good music is good music.

We want everybody in this country to be a NASCAR fan, and you can't do that by being insensitive in any one area.

I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.

No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

If you believe you're a nation, then I accept you as a nation.

If I had not accepted Milan, then I definitely wouldn't have been called to the national team.

I would like to play for the national team but it's the coach's decision and I have to respect it.

Everybody, be they female, whatever your religion, whatever your nationality, you're an individual, and if you perform well, we want you, and if you don't, we don't.

I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.

My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

Being Native American, we were different than everybody else, but I never felt like I was different.

I wanted to be white and blonde so I could be an angel in the school Nativity play. Because only the blonde girls were allowed to be the angels and angels are lovely and I just wanted to be lovely too.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

Fear is natural. Be with it.

Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.

People will appreciate who you are when you're naturally being who you are.

Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.

I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.