Lauren Oliver Quotes

What we always want to say [in X-men] is, "It's OK to be yourself, and actually it's a gift to be yourself. Whatever it is that you have, that may be your gift." I think that's what we always want to say, and spread it out, so have tolerance for other people who are different also.

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

I would love for 'Hedwig' to be in every tiny shopping mall so every freakish kid like I was can have a broadening experience.

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.

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.

I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.

I think when you look at the letters that I get, a lot of people are worried that maybe they wouldn't have a place in Donald Trump's America.

I hope that I can turn some of my fans that might be homophobic or supporters that might be homophobic and say, "You know what, we're all one people. This is love."

Our message, to people around the country and around the world, is this: Apple is open. Open to everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or who they love.

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.

A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.

You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.

I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people who have their acts together, either.

What makes the world such a wonderful place is the diversity. I have always strived to fill my home, my office and my hotels with the most diverse crowds possible.

I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.

The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in.

The truth is all kinds of people exist everywhere. So let's tell their stories, too.

When people come to my gigs, they feel accepted as they are and they feel part of this family.

You can't close the door on anybody.

This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.