Words matter. These are the best Don Lemon Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Most people would think if you’re the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids – or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.
You don’t have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.
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 abhor hypocrisy.
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.
More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.
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 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.
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!
Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.
I’m a citizen of the world.
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.
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!’
I’m a gay black guy. If I can’t ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
I was born gay, just as I was born black.
I don’t know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay.
It doesn’t matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.
There’s a degree of deception in silence.
I am a big devourer of James Baldwin.
I think young people don’t really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It’s not taught enough in school.
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.
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.
The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you’ll be okay in the end.
I believe in diversity in front of and behind the camera.
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.
The best way not to encounter America’s health care system is not to have to encounter it.
Just because you can have a baby, it doesn’t mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.
Many people who know me call me ‘the hardest working man in the news business’ because you’re never, ever going to outwork me.
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.
If I had had someone like me who had chosen to live their lives out and proud, there would be no need for the Tyler Clementis of the world.
Being gay doesn’t take your brain away or exclude me from having the same attributes as anyone else.
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.
When someone is in our tribe, I think it’s particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we’re used to their facial features.