Quotes About Acceptance

There's so much you can say about the ballroom scene. But, simply, it's just a way of life. It's a place you can live out a fantasy you never lived before.

I was a bandwagon jumper. If everybody in high school listened to it, so did I.

Don't bang your head against the wall about what you can't do.

In L.A., we listen to everything. If it's banging, it's banging - we don't care where it's from.

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

Yaya was much better than Sergio Busquets at Barcelona. But he was behind him in the pecking order and he found that hard to accept. I advised him to come to Manchester City while I was still there.

We can barely deal with men who set their own rules; to ask us to accept a woman who is individualistic, passionate, beautiful and yes, possibly annoyingly arrogant, makes us just a little nervous.

Maybe you are homophobic a little bit, but then you see me, and you've always loved me, and you love the way I play, and your kids love me. And then you're like, 'Oh, that's OK. It's fine.' Once it gets a little bit more personal, it helps break down those barriers.

I know too well how much I am going to miss football after my career for me to put up my own barriers.

I'll read anything that's good. I have no artificial barriers based on genre.

You're not going to get every part, so you can't base your sense of self-worth around whether or not you actually land the job.

I don't find that much wrong with baseball.

You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.

I knew I wasn't going to play professional basketball.

I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.

I've spent too much of my life being made to feel like there's something wrong with me. And no matter how much support I felt as a basketball player at Baylor, it still doesn't erase all the pain I felt there.

I got called a boy all the time. Going into the bathroom, I still get the shocked look, like, 'Are you supposed to be in here?' But I'm so used to it now, I'm just like, 'I'm a girl, I'm in the right bathroom.'

I used to work at Bloomingdale's when I was transitioning, and they didn't want me using the same bathroom as the female employees or what have you, so it was a struggle.

If I died on the battlefield, then that was the way it was supposed to be.

You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.

I've learnt I don't have to be a man and I don't have to be a woman, I can just be me.

You can still be a man and have an emotional side.