Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

The B-52s are all about inclusiveness and about celebrating your differences.

Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.

What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.

Different is good. Different is great!

I am very impulsive when it comes to experimenting with my looks and love playing with ideas by involving people from all walks of life.

For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to know. "Why are you so dark? Why are you so morbid? Why are you so sad? Don't you realize, we're all okay? Let's celebrate that fact." But that is not what writers do. We don't celebrate being "okay." If you want to be okay, take an aspirin.

When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.

Gay people do not fight for freedom to live in a lavender bubble, but in a more just society.

Accept diversity and don't take any crap.

We will embrace you in uniform today, we will embrace you without uniform tomorrow.

America at its best is inclusive and not exclusive.

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced. And that in and of itself creates backlash and denial. This is what I mean when I say better is hard.

To exclude groups of people because of their faith, this isn't worthy of the free state in which we live. It isn't compatible with our essential values. And its humanly reprehensible, xenophobia, racism, extremism have no place here. We are fighting to ensure that they don't have a place elsewhere either.

I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.

I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person.

I've always been a big supporter of equal rights and encouraging people to be who they are.

Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.

"Not being virulently and overtly racist against black people" and "treating gay people like human beings" are necessary conditions of greatness.

It doesn't matter what blood or race or creed or color. Love is love and it breaks all boundaries and you just see it right away.

Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else? What it comes down to, ultimately, is love. How can anything bad come out of love? The bad stuff comes out of mistrust, misunderstanding and, God knows, from hate and from ignorance.

I want to be the first guy to help people accept everybody for who they are. I'm talking about colors, religions, sex, everybody. My music is for everybody, it's not just for one kind of group.