Gilbert Baker Quotes

The reason the rainbow flag endures is because people own it. It means something to them.

Flags say something. You put a rainbow flag on your windshield, and you're saying something.

A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits.

I'm Puerto Rican, but I represent everybody.

The Olympics is a cool opportunity to represent our country, which is amazing. But I have another community I am competing for, and that is the LGBT community.

The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.

When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.

I'm proud to carry that torch and be like, 'I'm gay! I'm black! Hang your dreams on me. Hang your hopes on me. I'll carry them to the best of my ability.'

A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that's why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people.

I'm going to try to unite all Americans.

The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

I've had support from all sides, from people who call themselves Irish, from Northern Irish, to the whole of the UK, to people in America, and it would be terrible for me to segregate myself from one of those groups that support me so much.

I'm out here to represent the gingers, the gypsies, and the outcasts. Because I am all of the above, and I'm all about having a great time.

I prefer to think of myself as able to represent all walks of life.

Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do.

Experience tells us that people are not born with the innate ability nor the wish to see the Other as an equal individual in society. Pride in one’s separate identity can be so strong that it obscures the intrinsic value of other identities. Pluralism is a value that must be taught.