Quotes About Pride

I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

I'm just a boy with a dream from Queens. Just a queen from Queens.

Not only does the title 'We're Here' highlight the fact that me, Shangela, and Eureka are here, but we as a queer community, we were already here. We were already existing in your space before these drag queens showed up with a big purse bus.

'Queer as Folk' is gay gay gay gay gay.

Each and every one of us has multiple identities, and this is a fact that should be celebrated. I for example, am a queer black woman who grew up poor in Los Angeles.

I never thought in a million years I'd be involved in a project that celebrated the fullness of my identity of being queer and Asian.

If queer people are nothing, we are strong.

You can celebrate pride, by lifting up what Black queer people have given us.

Normally when you go to a queer space the people often look like you, they are the same age as you and so on, but at Mardi Gras and at queer events in general, everybody is different, everybody comes together. And that is what I love about Pride and Mardi Gras and those sort of events.

I identify as a gay man all the time, but I also like to identify as queer.

That's what Pride really is: A chance for people who are extremely queer to feel, once-a-year, extremely normal.

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

To apologize for the Balfour Declaration would be to apologize for the existence of Israel and to question its right to exist. Here in Britain, we will not merely mark the centenary - we will celebrate it with pride.

Everybody has an ego, and they don't like their athletic ability to be questioned.

Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about the samurai and things like that. Right after Pearl Harbor, they were just real quiet. They kept to themselves; they were afraid to talk about what could happen. I assume they knew that nothing good would come out of it.

There's a lot of things I would definitely go to bat for in Hawaii. I've been all over that stuff. If someone told me to be quiet about that because of my profession, no. That's my people.

There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.

Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it.

I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so proud of that little independent film. I play this young English geologist, and he's such a simple, loving kind of guy. Doesn't talk too much. He's just a quiet guy, and he gets the girl.

Ultimately, I've learned to pride myself on being quirky. I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.

I don't care if I get nominated for fifty-eight Grammys, the day I can't go back to where I came from, I quit.

I think from what I personally know, I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have 'made it,' who do things to help people.

I've got nice feet. I do pay quite a lot of attention to them. I always have.

'The News Quiz' is one of the things I am proudest of in my professional life.