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" I own about 70 L.A. Dodgers snapbacks in different colors. "

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" Historically, hip-hop is about a generation of artists rapping about the realities they see in their neighborhoods or the 'truths' they hear growing up in their homes. "

" My family is Jamaican and Cuban, but we would go to see our Jamaican side every summer for three months and every Christmas. One of the things I used to love was climbing trees and picking ackee fruit for breakfast. "

" My main thing is obviously mental health and well-being, and then my second passion would be politics; the third would be fashion. "

" I will kick my best friend out of the way if RuPaul wants to stand next to me as my best man. "

" I always had an ability to listen and give people the space to open up and express themselves, and I was hoping it would translate on TV. "

" Bomber jackets, for me, are the new blazers. They're something I can wear with suit pants or slacks - or I can go really urban with it. I think, as men, we don't have the little black dress that women do to go from day to nighttime, but the bomber can be the LBD for men. "

" I think it's just so important that parents actually really study the apps on the phones and figure out what's going on. "

" While the Internet has allowed for some extraordinary progress in creating conversations about diversity, it also allows uninformed comments that one has made in the past to live forever. "

" Being an openly gay black man, unfortunately I've had experiences working with individuals who've tried to exploit my blackness or my gayness in a way that doesn't make me feel comfortable, or they try to manipulate me into being a caricature of myself. "

" Most of the time, people are afraid of silence, and I'm not. "

" We're trying to get the world to see it's not always about the outside, it's about the inside. "

" I've never done drag, but I'd love to try it. "

" Being vulnerable is not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of strength. "

" My goal has always been to help as many people as I can. "

" What does culture mean? It's not a physical thing. I love a museum, but that, for me, doesn't make you a better person. "

" I know a lot of people who are depressed, and they walk around, and they're smiling every day, but no one's asking them how they're really doing. "

" I would like to encourage hip hop artists to invite those of us who are in the queer spaces in, so we can have those conversations. I love hip hop. If you bring me in the studio, I know how to act. And we can talk about what's not cool because, clearly, there's still homophobia that penetrates in all these areas. "

" Really, I think the extra layer of raising a son as a gay black man comes from trying to raise a son who doesn't subscribe to masculine stereotypes. "

" We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen. "

" In 2007, I discovered I was a father to a little boy who I did not know about. After being on MTV's 'The Real World' and traveling the world, I was greeted by a stack of papers on my doorstep informing me that I had a child. "

" It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing. "

" Gay men must be more effective caregivers to the women in their lives. "

" The marginalization of African-Americans within their own community based on sexuality is a construct that is more complex than the idea that 'blacks just hate gays.' "

" My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids. "

" No matter if someone has personal feelings about my sexuality or how they view me, it's all of our job to continue to show up in spaces where we can say, 'You know what? I can figure out how to try to work with you.' "

" My background is in social work and psychotherapy. "

" Even when you look at, like, movies with some of our famous celebrities, they don't really cry and bring out their tears until, like, forced. "

" It is important to remember that if we treat people who could be allies as enemies, we can only alienate them from our cause. "

" Every show I've been on, my kids pay no attention. They're just like, 'Who cares. It's just dad's job.' "