Quotes About Visibility

Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.

running a business without marketing will kill it

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

Sometimes I wish that Anna Wintour didn't know I existed.

With social media, you take the good and the bad of it. You have to make the most of the opportunities. You can use social media to your benefit to expand your character and gets eyes on you and what you're doing.

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story.

It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.

I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.

For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.

I want to be the physical embodiment of light, you know? And I feel like now people know, when they see the lights go off and this light-up figure appear on stage, they know that's Mustafa Ali.

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

I'm a gay man and a proud gay man and a loud gay man.

It was always my ambition to be on the cover of a free gay magazine.

Someone coming out as gay shouldn't be newsworthy; it shouldn't be warranting a magazine cover or anything like that, which I had as my story for coming out.

It feels really strange when I walk by newsstands and I don't see any magazines with me in it!

It's time for a trans hero in a mainstream comic.

For me, it was important to keep my name in 'mainstream Hollywood.'

It's hard for our sport to pass into the mainstream, to make it onto 'SportsCenter.'

I'm trying to put plus-size on the map. We can be fashion-forward.

By the mid-'80s, I was an actor. I was never super-famous, but I was definitely on the map.

We, as communities that are marginalized, need to open up our minds and realize that we should be asking and advocating for more of everyone. Let's get more gay black men; let's get more trans women.