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

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" I can be walking down the street, and someone will stop me and ask me for one of my hugs. They feel like I'm their friend, which I love - though sometimes my kids get a little weirded out by it. "

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

" 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. "

" We, as communities that are marginalized, need to open up our minds and realize that we should be asking and advocating for more of everyone. Let's get more gay black men; let's get more trans women. "

" Parents don't even know what's going on on Snapchat. "

" 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. "

" I hate chapped lips. "

" Life experiences with oppression and homophobia often become internalized and can have detrimental effects on the development of positive sexual identity for Southern black gay men. "

" What defines someone as a 'man' should not be the clothes they wear or how deep their voice is. It should be the content of his character, his strength in the face of overwhelming adversity, and his ability to still love and help others when the world has turned its back on him. "

" 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. "

" For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia. "

" 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. "

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

" So often, we take photos on our iPhone, and then they're gone in a year, and we don't even remember them. I like to experience life and disconnect from that. "

" When you break finances down in a way that kids can understand, it creates financial literacy that grows with them as they become adults. "

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

" Meghan Trainor is my female crush because she's just fierce. "

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

" 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. "

" My favorite job, and definitely the one that means the most to me, is 'Queer Eye.' "

" The funny thing is, we teach - as a culture, we teach people that it's OK to talk about your fitness goals... Like, I want to be more physically fit, I want to drop 10 pounds, but no one's talking about how I can spend 10 days to get happier. "

" There's so much toxic masculinity out there. I grew up with the notion that the more masculine you are and the less you show emotion, the more of a man you are. "

" We all are scared. First of all, as a culture, we're constantly told that if you start to express yourself or express your needs, you're needy. You're too emotional. And they put all these negative connotations on it. That has started since we were kids, especially for men. "

" The worst thing about our political system is that people debate; I wish our politicians were able to talk to each other rather than scream while trying to gain sound bites. "

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

" 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. "

" Southern black gay and bi men are suffering from a self-esteem issue. "

" I was 15 years old when I came out. "