Quotes About Acceptance

I initially found it difficult with my role as a substitute, sometimes sitting in the stands at Spurs, but I learned to deal with it.

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

People don't think the struggles gay people have are worth talking about because everyone's decided that we're all equals now. Those struggles are much more subtle now. But the weight of being different does carry on.

Initially, I was like, 'I can handle anything. What's the big deal about being a mother?' I was not prepared for the changes which are so subtle that they creep up on you.

Homophobia obviously still exists, but it is a lot more subtle, and it is a lot more in the background.

When I was growing up, I always felt a bit like I didn't quite fit in, a feeling that perhaps still lingers in the background to this very day. I was the small brown girl in the big white suburb.

For most of my childhood, I grew up in the countryside of England, where it was very suburban - there weren't a lot of people who were multicultural like my family. It was a place where the blonde and brunette girls in school were considered gorgeous. And because of that, I remember feeling like I wasn't good enough.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation.

I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields across the street. I kind of was embarrassed by it for a long time. Then I decided, 'Hey, if everyone else can embrace their homeland and where they're from, I can do the same!'

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

Being a drag queen out on the subway or out on the street is still not the most safe thing you can be doing.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there's enough room for all of us to succeed.

We know there has been a history of needing to be closeted to succeed and be famous, especially in acting.

Michael Sam will help us, and we'll give him every chance to succeed, and you know what? It's gonna be pretty cool.

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

To succeed, the Conservative Party must be at home in modern Britain.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened...or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the f**k on.

He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it

Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

Every American must feel a thrill of pride and gratitude in the thought that his country is the refuge of the oppressed, . . . and however wretched be the material offered to him from the refuse of other nations, he accepts it with generous hospitality.

Never argue with what is.