Malcolm Boyd Quotes

I think all of us naturally want to be a part of a community... at home and at work.

Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

I have so many gay friends that I love.

For me, I have gay family members, and I have a lot of friends in the LBGT community.

Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.

In New Zealand, men and women would not take a party seriously if it did not have a good gender - and increasingly racial - mix. It's not about being politically correct; it's just who we are.

I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

I think it's good to have a nice, healthy group of people all doing different things. A lot of my friends don't even work in Hollywood; they just happen to live in L.A.

I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

I decided to host a couple of the 'In The Life' programs. And I did that really as a result of meeting a lot of young gay people in the Midwest who really had nothing to relate to. At least I felt this program is presenting them with some options.

We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.

Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.

The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.

When I arrived in the U.S., I knew little English and didn't have any friends. The neighborhood and school kids were so welcoming. They made me feel at home very quickly.

It's lovely to feel part of a community.

When you have a lot of gay friends, you don't think of that as being different or divisive or weird; that's just your reality.

I just live my life - but the support from the gay community is always fantastic. It's really great because they are always the best people to always be around.

I probably do the most for the gay and lesbian community, or LGBT, but I don't have one that I focus on. I just try and kind of do a lot for different charities.

I want to be a part of bringing people together and sharing that love.

What makes Butler truly unique is the people that we have been so blessed to work with.

The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend.