Keiynan Lonsdale Quotes

It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count.

I love the interaction with different kinds of people. I like to shake things up, make a difference.

As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.

Together with President Obama, we are moving America forward, not back.

There's no Hollywood tradition of maybe not telling people that you're gay to protect your future ambitions. The YouTube world is a little unprecedented. I think what people are seeing is that the more true to yourself you are, the more an audience will connect with you.

There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn't have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay - who's better than everybody. Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best.

Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off.

Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.

I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing as they can... just differently.

Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair.'

I hope that when people with Down's see me, they will be inspired to do more than they think they can.

Not being white has never prevented me from enjoying Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. These are heroes of mine.

You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as president. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right.

We can sit back and be part of a hurting America, or we can channel our energy into something positive and do what we can to break the cycle of hate.

I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still be able to make it.

If you think America is great, remember that every person telling you otherwise may carry a clue to making it greater.

I never thought acting would be a realistic job for me. Because, quite frankly, I didn't see people who looked like me doing it. I quickly realized, that's all the more reason to try.

I was surprised by the attention and visibility on me as a black woman CEO. I look forward to the day when this is the norm and not the exception.

Sport can transcend bias.

Often in the past, when we have had a deaf person in the spotlight, we have been portrayed badly. It was up to me to change that.

Even if you're 'the gay guy,' if you're winning events, you're still winning events.

When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that's how I got work and connected with people. You don't need to plead for entry into a system that doesn't want you anyway.