Quotes About Acceptance

You don't want people to think, 'Oh, she was a person who was bitter because she didn't win.' You can't always win at everything.

It's easy to be bitter. I'm human in that respect.

Bitterness kills the soul.

One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

I don't think you can ever be bitter about anything, because if you don't allow your heart to stay open, then all you have is a filled heart of hate and bitterness, and you're never able to love or like anybody.

I don't have any bitterness in my heart, man.

I'm not black myself, but my sons are.

For years, 'Drag Race' was gay people's best kept secret. When I started doing drag, people didn't know anything about it. Look at it now: it's like it's gone from black and white to IMAX.

The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

What 'March' is saying is that it doesn't matter whether we are black or white, Latino or Asian. It doesn't matter whether we are straight or gay.

Whether you're black or white, you're a human - and that's what matters.

Almost anyone can give me the willies. Man or woman, Asian, black or white, young or old.

I love my blackness... I love my queerness.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

I feel happier about things, I don't blame myself over the losses.

We can't blame ourselves for how we're shaped. That's how we were born. Embrace it.

Throughout my life, I've known that if I change my hair, if I change my look, people I know will blank me in the street.

I saw this Facebook video of a boy, probably around seven, wearing a dress he had fashioned from a blanket, sashaying through his house while his mother applauded and cheered him on. He was so proud. It was such a beautiful thing but bittersweet because I knew his spirit would change soon: that he'd become self-aware and ashamed at some level.

I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing.

I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.

I think it would be tough for a lot of the athletes that I play with to think that while that I'm showering, that I'm performing on the field, I'm bleeding, I'm fighting with a person that is a homosexual.

I think a lot of me trying to blend in was me co-opting the racism that was used against me in a way - being OK with it.