Quotes About Acceptance

When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

I am a stepmother to the fullest extent.

I remember kids in high school and middle school who - I was kind of an insecure mess - I think there were those kids who really stepped out and paid attention to the kids that weren't as popular, and I see those kids as leaders.

As soon as I stepped foot in Minnesota, I've been shown nothing except love.

For the sexuality thing, I really feel like the reason I speak so blunt about it is because I held it in for so long. I never told my mom. I never told my family. I kept it to myself. Now, I'm happy with who I am. Either you accept it, or you don't. There's a lot of rappers out there that's like that, but no one's stepping up.

Stepping into the gym or going out to do sports is a scary thing for a trans person - you feel like everyone is looking at you.

I would love to see an athlete live their life in an authentic way, not feel that they have to hide, not feel that they have to be afraid, or live with shame - all the other things that go with being a closeted athlete. No human being should have to walk that path. But there is that fear of stepping forward.

I don't regret any steps that I take in life.

It's not easy to go up the steps after a defeat. It's very difficult for me, for everybody, but we have to accept it.

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

It doesn't bother me or Curtis being questioned about our sexuality and it probably happens more because we're dancers. That stereotype is disappearing, but people always made ignorant, short-sighted comments when we were growing up.

Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn't know where to put me. The blond hair wasn't matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work.

It's definitely my responsibility not to stereotype any character, but especially a gay character because of the misperceptions people still have about gays.

As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.

Humans can be cruel - kids and adults alike. That doesn't mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype.

We need to overcome the stereotype that genders aren't fluid.

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

Can you speak to the dead…like your sister?" Ms. Dupré's body seems to loosen, and her voice gets soft as a feather against your skin. "No, child. But you can say goodbye to someone even after he's gone. You just have to find a way that's right for you.

No garden is without its weeds

Two things a man should never be angry at what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of Time and Chance, except, perhaps, fair play.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.