Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love.

Acceptance speech of a humanitarian award from the Human Rights Campaign, as quoted in an AP report (19 June 2005), and "SHe said" Issue 1325 Between The Lines News (23 June 2005)