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" My first job ever was, I got hired by Oprah Winfrey. "

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

" I was on MTV's 'Real World' at the time when 'Queer Eye' came out. I remember, the first time I won an award, I got the award, and they were like, 'It's a tie! With 'Queer Eye!'' I never thought that I would one day follow in their footsteps. "

" Encourage your friend and family member who are queer parents of color to post their stories and share it with the world. It's time for us to be seen. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I have been a proud, openly gay man since I was 18. "

" People always look at reality shows and think, 'How do they fall in love so quickly?' When you are quarantined with the same people, the emotions you normally feel after a year come within a week. "

" 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. "

" When people hear my story, my hope is always that they start to believe that the life they want is possible for them, because I am living the life I've always dreamed. "

" 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. "

" Celebrities have a platform, and people listen to them. And there's a lot of people that we are able to touch, who aren't watching activists and aren't watching the news, that are watching what celebrities say. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's a lot of 'how to adopt' books, but there's no practical resource for, say, school supplies. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Hollywood, at the bottom of it, is about money. "

" We must do our part to make ourselves visible to the world. Let everyone see that being a queer parent of color is normal and happening right next door to them. "

" I want a big wedding. "

" 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. "

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

" That's the beauty of 'Queer Eye' coming back. No matter how far you think we've come as a society, there's still work that needs to be done. "

" It's been more than a decade since 'The Real World: Philadelphia' aired. I've grown up. My views have evolved, as has the media landscape. "

" 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. "

" Yes, I would definitely let the 'Queer Eye' - I mean, cameras - follow me for my marriage. "

" I hate chapped lips. "

" Its rare to see a proud and out LGBT person win an Oscar in a lead or supporting actor role. "

" 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.' "