Megan Phelps-Roper Several people I had conversations with were hugely influential. People who found internal inconsistency in Westboro’s ideology. It was the first thing that allowed me to recognize that Westboro was wrong. – Megan Phelps-Roper Allowed Quotes Conversations Quotes Hugely Quotes Ideology Quotes Inconsistency Quotes Influential Quotes Internal Quotes People Quotes Recognize Quotes Westboro Quotes Westboros Quotes Wrong Quotes Twitter was an alternative community for me. A different kind of community. I knew I was making people angry. But it didn’t matter, they weren’t my community. But the longer I was on Twitter and the more I came to know these people, to like and respect them, the more I could see the empathy and grief and sorrow they were expressing. My friends on Twitter didn’t abandon their beliefs or their principles – only their scorn. They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to me with pointed questions tempered with kindness and humor. They approached me as a human being, and that was more transformative than two full decades of outrage, disdain, and violence.
Gedde Watanabe I’ve been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff. – Gedde Watanabe
Nia LongThankful I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it’s me on that screen and I don’t have control over everything in this and I’m grateful and thankful. – Nia Long
Elizabeth Berg Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I suppose, but more than that, I’m finding it to be a very positive experience in which growth suggests itself in a much more alluring way than it did when I was young – isn’t that funny? – Elizabeth Berg
Cissy Houston I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there’s nothing I can do about that. – Cissy Houston
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