Quotes About Acceptance

Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.

I want to have a sense of openness and optimism, even if that means being open to things that are potentially dark.

I've experienced colorism in that way: where if you're lighter, then you'll potentially be accepted into society better than if you were darker-skinned.

'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book.

I definitely wouldn't mind gaining a few more pounds at all.

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, 'Oh, I look like a woman.' And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, 'cause I loved it.

Sometimes, life just gets in the way, and you have to forgive yourself for putting on a few pounds.

If I want to shave my head tomorrow and gain 50 pounds, or grow my hair long and lose 50 pounds, I have the freedom to do that. People will get used to it.

It's imperative that I have another channel to pour ideas into, that have been with me for quite a while, that it would be hard for people to kind of accept on first listen. Some of that would be more classically based stuff and some more jazz based.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

I am fascinated by women. They're as close as we men get to experiencing 'the other.' The challenge for me was to know and accept fully formed, powerful women.

Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

I never considered myself as part of a biracial family - we're just a family - but my parents are white, and my brother is Asian.

I don't know if I'm ever considered a part of the community I'm in.

I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

I saw the things that my sister went through - she's dark skinned - with boys not considering her attractive in her youth and the pain that it caused her.

My walk is consistently made fun of.

I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

We're human beings trying to love each other. There are constant revelations and room for growth.

Self-doubt is a constant companion for a chubby, gay, black boy born in the South.