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I consider myself a pretty rounded guy. I've done pretty elite things in business, sport and academics and all of a sudden I woke up one morning and I'm a 'big, black, British, gay guy'. That was frustrating at times.

John Amaechi

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John Amaechi
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: November 26
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I think there is unnecessary conflict right now between the vehemently religious and the LGBT community. The extremes of religion I think and the LGBT community have an issue and because a lot of black families in America are more religious, I think that is where the conflict comes into play.
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I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.
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I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.
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You can't be a part-time man of principle.
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Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.
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I grew up thinking the best job in the world would be a Jedi and being a psychologist is the closest thing I could get, so I wanted to be a Jedi and I don't want to be a Sith, so that is what keeps me on the straight and narrow.
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I thought kissing was good with girls, but I always thought you know it probably could be better, so there was nothing really.
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I would just never want to have someone come out for the greater good who was a celebrity and then find them slipping into like Lohanville with alcohol or drugs or something else just because they couldn't cope.
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I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.
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I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat.
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I suppose I knew I was gay at age 11 or so.
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I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.
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We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.
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I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.
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I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.
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My particular interest area is working in issues of emotional literacy. What I see of the way that we educate boys and more than that, the way we socialize boys within their families and then in schools to me is tantamount to just removing any element of emotional intelligence from them.
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There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.
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You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.
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