Quotes About Acceptance

Sure, I've dealt with my own share of adversity as an outsider living in this country but I recognize my challenges were not made harder, or impossible, because of the color of my skin.

I have an interest in the outsider.

It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.

There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

I don't think I'm an outsider at all.

I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

I wanted to make a movie that celebrates the outsider, the one who is different, the one who is not normal - and show how important that is.

When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.

Everybody think they're an outsider - that word's over! When I was young, being an outsider, I thought it was a bad thing you didn't want to be.

I felt like I was an outsider growing up in the black church, as a gay man, in a poor community.

I do know what it's like to be an outsider.

However popular you are, you still feel like an outsider.

I always felt like the 'outsider' kind of kid.

Everybody feels like an outsider at some point in their lives.

Every time you come across someone who looks like an outsider, the best way to go about it is to open your mind a little bit. You have to try to understand somebody who isn't like you.

I'm one of these guys who always feel like the outsider, you know? I'm always longing to be part of something, you know?

I am an Indian citizen. How can anyone label me as an outsider?

I don't think like Raj Thackeray... that anyone from Uttar Pradesh or Bihar or anywhere who comes to Mumbai is an outsider.