Quotes About Visibility

For me personally, I've always tried to exude positivity and I feel that it's important for all types of experiences of black men to be seen.

I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.

Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

All three of my kids grew up seeing me on posters.

I think when you make something that is non-mainstream and people don't have automatic way of consuming, like you don't have a big star, or a hit song or marketing money then you need to find some way to make audience aware of your film.

You can't sit at home and continue to get contracts if you don't have a bigger name.

I've made one action movie. But nobody saw it, so I guess that doesn't count for most people.

When I saw that Laverne Cox was on the cover of 'Time' magazine, I totally lost it. It was a coup for the girls!

I was 19, 20. I didn't know what to do. I knew one thing: I never saw myself on TV or anyone like me, and I wanted to be that for someone else. I think the most courageous thing I did was ask for help.

For me, Caitlyn Jenner is such a huge role model. She's really making a difference in our society by just being brave and sharing her story. People say she's not brave and courageous, but to me, she is so brave and courageous.

I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world.

I think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of 'Vanity Fair'... is only good for the trans community. I can't imagine that the more we talk about this that it's not just doing everybody a lot of good.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.

A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.

I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.

CEOs must embrace the role of serving as the public face of the company to their customer community and the marketplace at large.

It's really important for cycling and for women to be on a sporting stage which is in the mainstream and across the board, not just my own sport.

And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults.

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.

In the scheme of things, I'm just a guy who gets my picture taken.

Taking care of your mental health is important, and being able to model that for queer people who are out there every day dealing with their own struggles is very significant.

It's something I've constantly found shocking - all this astounding talent amongst black women that never gets to be seen or heard.