Non Acceptance Quotes

I'm on the younger end of Gen X, and for me, growing up gay was not cool.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

If it tastes good, spit it out!

Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

I don't belong to the straights now - they didn't get me back.

Lao Tzu says: "Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble." None of us accept ourselves. The more a person doesn't accept himself, the greater a mahatma he looks to others to be. We are our greatest enemy. If we had our way, we would cut ourselves to pieces in order to remove what was unacceptable.

People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they still have a language that they've discovered around things. And they have a vocabulary to use, and they have a way to express themselves even when they're not accepted.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

The only thing wrong with me was that I was a weirdo that hated school. I'm sure now there'd be a disorder for it, but I was just an oddball.

People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them.

I never felt welcome in the heteronormative groups.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school.

As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death.

A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.

I apologize for what was said even though I didn't say it.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

The majority of people do not accept my choices.

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

When a person finally has the courage to say, 'This is who I am,' and society is not there to welcome them with open arms, it is so tragic.

Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight limp and wear thick glasses.

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."