Logan Browning Quotes

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.

I happen to be black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both, but that is not the totality of my identity.

I'm still feminine, I'm still a woman, and above all, I'm still human.

For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

I'm a human being before anything else.

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

We come from a very mixed family. We're a bunch of different races, my family. So it's very normal for us. I don't know why we're accepted. Are all of us accepted or just me?

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

We ask to be recognized as men.

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

I always felt that it was never the duty of a person to really stand up for their gender or their race or anything like that - I always felt that was a personal choice. But I do feel now that maybe my opinion is evolving or changing a little bit.

I am so grateful that the public has given me this gift. They look at me as a person - not as a race or a color. The word for it is freedom - to be accepted as me.

My books are not about how it feels to be a black man. My books are about how it feels to be a human being, and part of what I'm trying to sort out is what we mean - what I mean, what you mean, what everybody in the culture means - when they say 'black man,' or they say 'white person.'

I've experienced Islamophobic stuff. But I don't care - you can say whatever you want to say about me, but I am who I am. I think that what I'm trying to fight for and what I'm performing for is bigger than any religion, race, creed, or class.

I'm a walking contradiction on so many levels. I'm gay, black, and a Christian.

I don't want my daughter to grow up and feel like she has to try that hard to get people to accept her.

I want to be respected as a woman, as a mother, as a wife. That's why I transition.

There's no right way to be a woman; there's only a right way to be a human, which is to have respect for others.