Quotes

I think life is really good.

As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity to me.

I think it's really cool that someone could have ovaries and the presidency. Growing up, I thought I could never be president because I was black and female. Now I know that's wrong. Within my own lifetime - that's different. Within my lifetime, interracial couples are more common. Within my own lifetime, biracial folks are able to claim that.

I don't feel like my life happens to me. I feel like I happen to my life. I feel that I'm in the driver's seat.

'The Bi Life' will show many stories. I think that people will find some of those stereotypes, maybe some people are greedy, maybe some people are using bisexual as a transition, but not all of them are.

On New Year's Eve, 2000, my friends and I were going to a party in Melbourne and I decided to do it in drag. It was the happiest night of my life.

I acknowledge that I'm really fortunate to have found pockets of people all through my life who've accepted me.

On 'Love Island' you're trying to win the prize money and stay together; on 'The Bi Life,' the winner is the one that finds love.

To hold and know the power of a woman is something so amazing that I don't think a woman could ever understand because they cannot know life without it.

Drag has taught me that I have deliberate control over my image, and when this notion is applied to one's whole life, it is both powerful and transformative.

I'm an atheist, so I don't believe in a heaven or afterlife. I believe that once I die, that's it.

The Spice Girls were the life preserver to my high school years.

Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal.

I love skating. It's part of my life, and I never wanted to give it up.

My parents always enforce the idea of never giving up upon all of my siblings and me, and I think that's something that will stick with me my whole life.

I have my own life to live.

It's one of the roles of a lifetime to be able to play someone like Mr. Cochran who was so influential. People knew about his work in regard to police brutality. He was very much a staple in the community - someone who, if there was trouble, people knew, 'Go get Johnnie Cochran.'

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

When actors have the opportunity to play a larger-than-life icon - my wife did it with Tina Turner, and Jamie Foxx did it with Ray Charles - you have to make a decision how you go in. What do you start with? Where do you begin?

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

I have a normal life; I don't do anything crazy.

I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.

I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees a word, is it as a writer that you die?'