When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.
Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.
I certainly have gay friends, but I don't remember thinking, 'Oh my God, I have this friend, and they're gay, and that's so cool.' I mean, I was very naive until I got to a certain age.
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.
You have to be really careful to watch out for the difference between banding together, and being grouped together by people who don't understand you.
Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.
I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.
I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.
Trans people are beautiful. It's a different kind of beauty, and it should be recognized and respected.
And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.
Make black history every day, I don't need a month
Society doesn't tell you that you can be trans.
We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.
If 'gay' is not in your vocabulary, if being gay is not an option in your world, then you're far more likely to see your kid as anything but gay.
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
In L.A., people will recognize me for doing 'Girls,' but have no idea that I have ever done anything on Broadway or can sing or dance or any of that stuff.
If somebody says, 'I am a gay person, and I want to get married,' is their own family going to deny them that? Are our own fellow citizens going to deny them that?
When we have trans actors play trans characters, people can look onscreen and say, 'OK, this is what trans is.'
I think that a lot of people don't understand how much discrimination transgender people actually face. They think that we're just kind of saying it to put it out there and get sympathy, but that's not true at all.
A man always has to leave his homeland, go to another time zone, another culture, to get a different recognition - to be accepted as someone who's following a different path, who's moving into a different mode.
The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.
People still call me ma’am on the phone, and it’s just part of life now. I’m not even phased by it… Going through DriveThrus is always fun, because it’s always so shocking when they see me. It’d just be kind of like, ‘Thank you ma… woah!! Woah, sorry about that!’
