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" I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that. "

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" I'm not concerned with what people think of me. "

" African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country. "

" Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption. "

" I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted. "

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" The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it. "

" Can the president really blame Fox News for his problems? "

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" Learn to love being black. "

" We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner. "

" I don't know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay. "

" I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge. "

" If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fight over it. And we can have a conversation. We can also disagree without being disagreeable, and we can just disagree, which is fine. It doesn't mean that I don't like you, or you don't like me. We just disagree. "

" I like all kinds of music. I hope you do, too. "

" In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about. "

" Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it. "

" More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. "

" Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican. "

" It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets. "

" My mom tells me every single day that she's proud of me. "

" Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us. "

" Some people are saying, 'Justin Bieber is racist.' Is he? I don't know. "

" I think if I had seen more people like me who are out and proud, it wouldn't have taken me 45 years to say it - to walk in the truth. "

" I do feel that Paula Deen should not have lost her job, and I've said this on the air. The marketplace should have decided. The marketplace decided something different. Her books are No. 1. "

" I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can? "

" You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices. "

" There's a degree of deception in silence. "