Quotes About Acceptance

The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

Since I can remember, being different was always hard around normal people. That's just how it is, whether you have vitiligo, a deformity, or a different way of thinking or dressing. It's going to always be weird for normal people.

There were times I felt I'd never get my life back. Am I ever going to be normal and go out with my friends and have a beer and not think I am going to wake up at 3 A. M. and have anxious thoughts about what normal people are doing?

I tried all my life to be a normal person.

I'm a normal person, and I'm going to make mistakes. I think people have to accept that.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

I really enjoy the fact that the very boring, normal person that I am isn't kind of interesting to anyone. It's fine by me.

I just want to be a normal person.

When you meet people you don't want them to look at you and say 'poor you.' I just wanted to be treated like a normal person.

I hope what people see in me is that I'm a normal guy, and that people who look as I do can do normal things.

People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state of normalcy to me.

I think most of my life I have spent trying to gain normalcy, whatever that may be.

There are very few moments in my life where I feel normalcy.

Some people don't like showing any deviation from normality, but I like talking about things like that, so talking about my mental health wasn't a big deal.

I sort of felt like being young was normally written about as being very fun and light-hearted. And I think that's true, but I don't feel like there's a lot of songs about how hard it is when you don't really know who you are or what you want, and you feel like you have to apologize for simply just existing.

I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.

I normally go with the flow.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

When you're young, no one cares who your parents are, although Mum would arrive to pick me up in her full hair and make-up and fur, and I used to say, 'Can't you just dress normally, like all the other mums?' I wanted her to blend in more, but I've always been really proud of Mum - as proud as she is of me.

I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in my early 20s, so I never realized that makeup 'wasn't for boys,' as many social norms say.

I lump Canada and the States together. I like good old North American boys.

We can embrace the idea of a North Carolina that's truly for all of us.