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

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" 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 have to start making sure that churches start to talk about... black queerness in a way that's affirming. Because a lot of young black men are in the church, and that's where they start to learn this self-hate behavior. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women. "

" By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully understand why those lyrics existed. "

" 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. "

" We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence. "

" Facebook Algorithms have got us all screwed up, where we only listen and talk to people with the same views as us, and I think it's not helping us as a culture to grow. "

" 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. "

" Often, men forget to buy their grooming supplies. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My background is in social work and psychotherapy. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 hate chapped lips. "

" Unfortunately, a lot people still don't understand queer culture. "

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

" I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys. "

" In our country, being from immigrant parents, growing up black in the South, coming out at 16 years old, being a teen parent... you would assume that my life would amount to nothing. And here I stand today. So, if I can do it... you can, too! "

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

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

" 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. "