Quotes About Acceptance

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.

I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.

I'm obviously aware that most people don't agree with me, that people like to escape into a coherent world that is apart from their own.

I don't mind cold water. I mean, it's fine. Wetsuits will serve you these days; it doesn't really matter.

I don't worry about collaborating. Whatever happens, happens.

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.

Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.

I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

I'm biracial; I didn't know that until I was 7 or 8 years old. I thought I was full white, which, honestly, I can't even really say because I didn't see colors.

I didn't want to create a makeup line for one ethnic group; it had to be multi-ethnic. To me, beauty is beauty. It doesn't matter to me what colour the skin is.

I'm colour blind, a little hue-challenged.

While accepting donations, no one looks at the colour of money.

Don't look at a person - look into the person. Heart is the hero, not the colour. I don't stand against or for any colour; I just believe in endorsing the idea of not endorsing any colour.

We're all people, no matter what colour.

I'm a gay man of colour.

I don't care a bit about people's race or skin colour.

I don't care one bit about people's race or skin colour.

The colour of someone's skin doesn't explain anything.

I truly love my hair but my skin colour was something I couldn't get my head around.

I think football is a game where people come together and football should bring everybody together, whether it is religion or skin colour or where you come from. We should be happy to enjoy that moment together, those 90 minutes where we can show love. Because I think football is love - and when love is not there, for what should we play?

Don't be mean to people because of their skin colour, because of what they love, because of who they love, because of what they want to do.

I don't want my daughter to ever feel that she can't do something because of her skin colour.

I would wish we would get to a place of colour-blind casting, where it didn't matter what colour skin you are, where you came from, anybody could play anybody and we didn't judge it.