Chino XL (Derek Keith Barbosa) Quotes

There's so many gay rappers... They probably dis me cause I'm the straight one.

Chino XL

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• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Help
  • Gay

• I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Know
  • Me
  • Rapper

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • Language

• It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Rap
  • Goddess

• I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Good
  • Children
  • Day

• I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Character
  • Think
  • Gay

• You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Up
  • Family
  • Age

• I've known the poet Eileen Myles since the 1990s, when I first moved to New York, and I remember seeing her walking her Pit Bull Rosie around the East Village. She had these beautiful arms and David Cassidy hair and the sort of swagger so many of the gay boys I knew wished we had. We all had crushes on her.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • She
  • Remember
  • Beautiful

• That's the thing about 'Torchwood': It will pull the rug out from under you. It goes along being cute and campy and gay, and then, all of a sudden, it'll nail you.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Gay
  • Cute

• I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • She
  • Mom
  • Gay

• I've known I was gay since I was young, I think. And I mean young - like, young - like 5 or 6. I think most gay people or queer people know there's something different about them very early, but I didn't know what to call it.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • People
  • Different
  • Gay

• I was homophobic because I obviously didn't know that I was gay.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Gay

• I came out at 16 years old as a proud, gay man. My last girlfriend in high school - when I was 15 - became pregnant with my child but did not tell me.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • School
  • High
  • Proud

• If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Environment

• I feel like, for so many years in the industry, LGBT-identifying actors were told to play small or water themselves down or 'butch it up,' whether you're a male and you're only going out for straight characters because gay characters aren't being written, or you're a woman and you're told to 'femme it up' to play the leading lady role.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • Up
  • Small
  • Water

• I was doing a college show for the first time, and there was this 20-year-old gay male who's been diabetic his entire life. He said, 'I really wanna get into stand-up.' I was like, 'Oh, my God, do you realize how interesting and inherently funny you are? Go do all the comedy that you wanna do.' I care about that.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Peace
  • Thoughts

• Now people won't beat you up if you are gay; they might just talk behind your back.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Gay

• I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it okay to cry.

  

  David Sedaris
  • Time
  • Writing

• Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • People
  • Mind
  • Smart

• There's so many gay rappers... They probably dis me cause I'm the straight one.

  

  Chino XL
  • Gay
  • Rap
  • Causes