Billy Porter Quotes
Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I'm political. Sometimes that's all you need to do: Show up and be black, gay and Christian in America and actually say it out loud. And refuse to let anything or anybody take that away from you.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.
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The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.
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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
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Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I'm political. Sometimes that's all you need to do: Show up and be black, gay and Christian in America and actually say it out loud. And refuse to let anything or anybody take that away from you.
