Michael Steele Quotes

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

I'm gay. I just didn't think it was anybody's business.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

I've been gay since the day I was born.

Some people have their sexuality really at the forefront of who they are, and I applaud those people.

It's important to not have my sexuality define me.

Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.

Sexuality shouldn't define you. It should be part of who you are.

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.

I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

I think being gay is a blessing, and it's something I am thankful for every single day.

Being gay is immutable.

I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

Being gay doesn't mean that you are less than anybody else. It's just who you are.

A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label.

We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A—” “Do I really have to find a word for it?” Kyle interrupts. “Can’t it just be what it is?” “Of course,” I say, even though in the bigger world I’m not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own. We pause for a moment. I wonder if that’s all—if he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, “You see, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be.” “Nobody does,” I assure him.

You know just because you don't like the way it sounds when I say it or you don't like my haircut or you don't like that I'm gay, it does not mean that what we say is not true. If you squint a little bit, it is true I do sometimes look like a dude, and I am definitely gay.

I’m not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don’t live on other people’s terms.

I'm gay and always have been, even when I was David Jones.

I never had a moral problem with being gay.