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In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about.
I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?
My mom tells me every single day that she's proud of me.
The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end.
I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.
Many people who know me call me 'the hardest working man in the news business' because you're never, ever going to outwork me.
I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you.
I am a big devourer of James Baldwin.
Can the president really blame Fox News for his problems?
Some people are saying, 'Justin Bieber is racist.' Is he? I don't know.
I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that.
Learn to love being black.
I'm not concerned with what people think of me.
I don't watch the media that much.
Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it.
I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.
I think if I had seen more people like me who are out and proud, it wouldn't have taken me 45 years to say it - to walk in the truth.
Everything in Louisiana is about layers. There are layers of race, layers of class, layers of survival, layers of death, and layers of rebirth. To live with these layers is to be a true Louisianian. This state has a depth that is simultaneously beyond words and yet as natural as breathing. How can a place be both other-worldly and completely pedestrian is beyond me; however, Louisiana manages to do it. Louisiana is spooky that way.
I was born gay, just as I was born black.
Whatever happens with my career, I'm going to prosper no matter what.
There are features that African Americans have that are similar! There are features that white people have that are similar! Features that Hispanic people have that are similar!
If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth ... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.
Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, 'Thank you.' And I will never stop. I don't know how he's still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don't know that I have.
I do feel that Paula Deen should not have lost her job, and I've said this on the air. The marketplace should have decided. The marketplace decided something different. Her books are No. 1.
We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.
African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.
I'm a citizen of the world.
Being gay doesn't take your brain away or exclude me from having the same attributes as anyone else.
When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.
I love old school rock and roll.
I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'
You Weigh How Much You Should Criticize The President Because Hes Black
When you learn, you grow. You have to stretch, and it's not easy. You know, if you're working out your muscles, if you're doing whatever, it's gonna hurt a little bit.
I don't consider myself a celebrity. I'm just a journalist.
Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.
I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard.
Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us.
People all the time say to me, 'You look just like Don Lemon,' and I would go, 'I hear that all the time! 'And after a moment, I would go, 'I am Don Lemon!'
Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
I know that some things are beyond our control, some illnesses are beyond our control, we get sick, we don't know why. But let's pledge to do whatever we can to avoid those high medical bills.
You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.
Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.
In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it's frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch 'The Price is Right,' I'll watch 'The Price is Right.'
I believe in diversity in front of and behind the camera.
You know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn't want to do it,
The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.