If you gauge how you’re doing on whether somebody is responding vocally or not, you’re up a creek. You can’t do that; you kind of have to be inside of your work… And tell the story every day. Tell the story. Tell the story. Regardless of how people are responding, tell the story.

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"Sometimes the message of love, inclusion, and equality needs to be direct and clear."

- Billy Porter

Love

"The world has caught up with me and I’m a living witness that dreams do come true, even if they aren’t the ones you start out with."

- Billy Porter

Hope

"Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business."

- Billy Porter

Wisdom

"It’s my devout conviction that if I’m not enabling and encouraging the underprivileged and the vulnerable, then I haven’t justified their confidence in me, and I haven’t done sufficient justice to their gifts."

- Billy Porter

Service

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- George Lorimer

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- Amelia Earhart

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- Melissa McCarthy

Determination

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- Walt Disney

Determination

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Determination