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.

Billy Porter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 21, 1969

Topics

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Think how different it is to experience a word than a sound. When you're hearing a singer, you're controlled by the words, because you understand the language, you know what they're talking about, and you're forced to think about what they're talking about. But when you're hearing that same thing without a word, you're free to wander.

Jenny Scheinman

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I've made it my business to condition and train folks to understand that you'll never know what's going to come out of my mouth.

Amanda Seales

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Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Alphonse Karr

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On 'Saturday Night Live,' I never really wrote. You know, I would just - I would let the writers cast me into the show. So my strength - and I put all my energies into performance. I just couldn't deal with the rejection, you know, getting your sketches cut, and it was hard for me.

Tracy Morgan

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I think that is important, to not make people feel alien.

Ruth Negga

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Life is not to be taken seriously.

RuPaul

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As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

Mary Lou Retton

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You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

Martin Short

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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

Mika

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I think we've become blind in this country to the ways in which we've managed to reinvent a caste-like system here in the United States, one that functions in a manner that is as oppressive, in many respects, as the one that existed in South Africa under apartheid and that existed under Jim Crow here in the United States.

Michelle Alexander

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I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

Lola Kirke

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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Pythagoras

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