Quotes About Acceptance

It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.

There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.

I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.

I'd got into the habit of needing that security, love, and acceptance from a guy to make me happy.

I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

I think it's interesting to know that being a geek isn't the negative thing that it used to be.

For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I started to realize we were all born to stand out; nobody is born to blend in.

What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.

Love is something we should all be saying yes to. If you're willing to love someone then people should support that. In a world full of such hate and so much negativity, it feels like love is something we should all just be sharing.

With my name, there's been a lot of negativity around it. I'll be real. I understand it.

We're taught as a society what is acceptable for women to look like and what's not. And where fat should be and shouldn't. And I think it's important to sometimes reprogram ourselves and recondition ourselves to not have so much negativity toward our own bodies.

You have to stop registering size with negativity. The biggest body can be absolutely beautiful.

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.

Everybody's got baggage, and not just the classic, 'Oh I have so much baggage,' but everyone comes with so much context, and you're not just dating a person: you're dating all their context, too. Part of relationships is negotiating each other's context.

I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband.

To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way.

I would tell little Zavion Davenport that it doesn't matter where you're from and how you grew up, the neighborhood you grew up in.

I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood.

I'd be the only disabled kid in the neighborhood playing football, and we're playing full contact, and I'd always manage to get open.

We used to have a bull. A real bull. At that time, Jennifer Lopez was my neighbor. God bless her, she took it. But other neighbors did not like it, that we have a bull.

More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the 'Duck Dynasty' guy almost lost his show.

My neighbors know who I am and what I do, but they like me for who I am.