Quotes About Acceptance

I'm proud of my colour, I'm proud of my skin, I'm proud of who I am.

Mate, I don't care about race or colour or sexuality.

I didn't want to be a 16-year-old kid being beaten up by a bunch of people who didn't like me 'cause of the colour of my skin.

I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me.

Sometimes I felt I was being treated differently to my bandmates because of the colour of my skin.

I would say 'The Big Narstie Show' is the United Colours of Benetton; it's for everyone. But I would definitely say that it has a black appeal, because that's what I am.

For them it's normal that people of all colours are equal. When I look at schoolkids, I think that we should all be like that.

I have always been proud and happy to wear France's colours. I have always been respectful of the team. But I need people to prove they really want me to play.

There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it.

The only way to combat hate is by demonstrating empathy and love.

I think a lot of people, when they don't quite fit in in the world, use humor to combat that and to find their place in society.

I've got my mother's acceptance of things and my dad's drive - not such a bad combination.

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

Men will come and go from your life.

One thing a comedian does, when you step on the stage, you're selling yourself, and certainly I don't think the whole world can love you. But if you can get the majority on your side, you're really in business.

If I am known as a comedian or I get to be known as one, it is because of one of two reasons - either you have not tried or you have accepted it.

There are so many really good comedians, and I would never be as good as they are. It's not my calling.

I'm a comedian because I want people to like me. That's really why all comedians are comedians.

I haven't met a comedian who is judgemental of other comedians.

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.

How do I comfort myself? Well, I say, 'Life is just like that.'

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.