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For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her when I was sixteen. It didn't go over so well... →
I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of... →
All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active... →
I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I've also done a lot of work... →
When who you are naturally is not only considered a sin, but you're reviled for being that human being and you don't have any control over... →
I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I am today.
I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm the type of actor who goes to work, transforms... →
When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister.... →
When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely empowering and exhilarating.
Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.
For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.
I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'