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Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter.

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

I was born gay, just as I was born black.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.

It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

I believe gay, straight, anybody, everybody's supposed to be happy in this world, man.