Sonya Deville Quotes

I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.

There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community.

But I understand the importance of being a brown, Muslim woman of faith who is in the public eye, because there aren't that many of us.

The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.

Steve Warren's work and career have opened doors for out professionals across the entertainment industry. In addition to advocating for LGBT people, he has continuously mobilized a large base of high-profile allies to help bring about social change.

I want to represent Asian women.

As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics - culture is politics.

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference.

As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it.

Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.

Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now.

I am now using media as a tool to bring attention to marginalized people.

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.

What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

So many minority youths had volunteered...that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself

People who have been empowered by positive change are demanding quick solutions to current problems.

Social change comes not only from the courtroom, but from talking to the media.

LGBT people are some of the bravest and most potent change agents and leaders I have encountered, and the most forceful defenders of the vulnerable and voiceless, because they know what it's like to be there.

I represent opportunities for other women and other people of color, and I'm trying to start my own kind of movement.

I'm known as a voice for a generation of people that don't have a voice.