Steven Levitan Quotes

Let's be honest, L.A. is not a bad place to live. There are some crazy people there, but I tend to get on with them!

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

I like Chino more than L.A., to be honest.

I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.

I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

I love living in Los Angeles.

I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn't want to live there.

I feel like I can be myself in L.A. I feel like Mississippi is a little close-minded; not all of Mississippi is, but just the part that I came from. They really don't get outsiders.

In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world.

I grew up in Queens, which is the most diverse borough: the rich and the poor and homeless and people of every sexual orientation and gender and age group. Everyone is saying we live in this bubble, and there's some truth to that. But I do not think it is healthy to all of a sudden invalidate the way we live in New York.

Legally we have integration, social acceptance and diversity... but that doesn't mean... everybody is down with it.

I lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and now my kids are growing up in Los Angeles, so that's culturally very different.

I think people want to live in a city that is welcoming and inclusive. I don't think people want to feel that they can only go into a place with a rainbow flag in front.

I felt Helen Willis was in tune with the situation of a black woman married to a white man, and she had no problem being black.

L.A. is the most accepting city I've ever been in.

We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New York and the North did the litmus test of race and religion spout from the mouths of public officials.

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.

It just seems like the culture war is over, and the gay kissers won.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.