Dustin Lance Black Quotes

If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

I'm marching for women; I'm marching for the LGBT community. I'm marching for immigrants. I happen to fall into all three categories, so I'm marching for myself at the end of the day and for my family and my friends. And for whoever else deserves it.

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.

I am passionate about human rights.

It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference.

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.

Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.

Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do.

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

We must stand up and do everything we can for the people who do not have a voice.

People who have been empowered by positive change are demanding quick solutions to current problems.

There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.

I'm proud to have stood with the LGBTQ community my entire career.

I consider myself a social justice person.

I feel like I've contributed monumentally to the success of the gay movement in America, and if anyone wants to argue that, I'm open to it. You're welcome, 'Advocate.'

There are people in our country, in our communities who are being marginalized and discriminated against every single day. I fight for them.