Quotes About Acceptance

The Latino population has become such a presence. We are part of the American tapestry in a very profound way, in every area you can think of, and are very significant in popular culture.

Latino kids are not rejected by their parents for being Latino, nor are most Muslims disowned by their parents for being Muslims, but those who are gay are often the target of their families' disapprobation or outright hostility.

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.

Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.

We are targeted when humor is not taken in the right spirit, but that's a part and parcel of this profession.

LGBTQ people are still targeted by hate that lives in both laws and in hearts.

I didn't get targeted in high school for being a Muslim - it wasn't that - but I always felt like an outsider in that sense.

When will we regard human beings as human beings? Why do we discuss someone's appearance? And when we can't find faults in appearances, we start targeting their personalities. Why do we consider others beneath us?

Even though I'm super into tarot and astrology, I don't believe in knowing too much about the future.

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.

Any show that has a completely gay ensemble has the very difficult task of trying to represent the community.

For a Punjabi singer to find acceptance down South is a tall task. I'm glad I earned their love and respect.

Explaining to my children, especially my daughter, that I will be dressed as a woman, and will be playing a eunuch was a tough task.

You give your all to the task and hopefully that's enough but sometimes things get taken out of your hands and one way or another you have to accept it and get on with it and focus on the task at hand.

I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

I know I'm not everyone's taste and that's fine, and that is the beauty of digital and radio that you can find what you want to listen to.

I know that I am not a great beauty, and I know that I am a certain taste.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.