Peter Thiel Quotes

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.

I want people to hear the name Mustafa Ali and want them to know that I'm a proud American. I'm from here, I'm from Chicago; I'm just like one of you.

I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

'Oh, glory, I've said it so many times already: We are not just Northerners. We are part of the U.S.A.

I voted against Donald Trump for every American who looks and sounds like me. Because we love this country. We are proud of this country. We stand as equals in the United States of America.

If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.

I have a freaking tattoo of Bulgaria on my shoulder. I'm proud of it.

We don't need to be categorized - we are all individual and beautifully unique.

Sexuality shouldn't define you. It should be part of who you are.

Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are.

Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.

I hope being gay isn't the most interesting thing about me.

Being gay doesn't mean that you are less than anybody else. It's just who you are.

And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world and someone should ask her where is she from, we believe that she should always be able to hold her head high with pride in her voice when she answers, "I am an American." That is the course we seek. That is the change we are calling for.

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.

I live in America. I love being an American.

Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

We are all allowed to support whoever we'd like to in this country. That's the greatest part about being an American - one of them, that is; you know what I mean?