Quotes About Equality

Even now, when I go out people are like, 'What are you doing here? Didn't you just have a baby?' But people never ask a male comic when he's out a week later, like, 'Oh my God, you're so irresponsible! What are you doing out? Who is taking care of the baby?'

My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

In Ohio, we must put fairness to people and their families first, ahead of powerful special interests.

We're poor black kids from Akron, Ohio. When you tell stories about people like us, sometimes it's going to be considered a social-impact story.

I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.

Sometimes, of course, I could not belong to the boys club, but that's OK. There are always ways to do what I wanted to do. It doesn't really matter so much to me.

I can go to the BBC and say, 'OK, my next drama is for women, and it is diverse women.' I take that to America, however, and I have another set of conversations.

I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

As long as you know, within yourself, that you're no better than anyone else out there, you're OK.

There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that.

I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.

When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.'

There is something missing in Asian America. They're missing people to tell them, 'It's okay to be who you are - you belong. Just be unapologetically you; you're not less than anybody else.'

It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.

When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.

I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.

Is it okay for a U.S. bank to pay a U.S. banker but not a U.K. bank to pay a U.S. banker?

It's okay for a guy to be a baddie, but a woman? No, we can't deal with that.

Some people are meant to be bigger, and that's okay. Because if everybody was built the same, it would be a little boring. We enjoy the differences in each other, and I think that's what makes all of us beautiful.

The more messy women that we put on screen, that we put in books, the more women can feel represented and seen, then they can access their own stuff, feel it's okay, and then have the strength to speak out about things like we're talking about. About rising up.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.