Tillett Quotes

#1. It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.

IO Tillett Wright

#2. I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.

IO Tillett Wright

#3. I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people.

IO Tillett Wright

#4. But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.

Anonymous

#5. Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#6. Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

IO Tillett Wright

#7. Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.

Marianne Williamson

#8. God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

Ben Tillett

#9. Through the Offering you are allowing others to love you. And you are teaching others to love through what you offer them.

Paulo Coelho

#10. All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

IO Tillett Wright

#11. So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.

Majel Barrett

#12. In prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

Alexandre Dumas

#13. For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone before, but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.

IO Tillett Wright

#14. Faith is the best ingredient for miracles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.

IO Tillett Wright

#16. Try till you succeed ... if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!

W.C. Fields

#17. All I could think about was, 'I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.'

Brandy Norwood

#18. We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

IO Tillett Wright

#19. At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.

IO Tillett Wright