Cecil Taylor Quotes

My sexuality is only a thread of the tapestry of my life.

Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.

I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

Sexuality is such a small part of the make-up of someone; it's not who they are.

I leave it very open because, at the end of the day, it's one of those things where I shouldn't have to reinforce and state, 'No, I'm a heterosexual' - because that's all nonsense.

My sexuality is irrelevant.

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

Sexuality shouldn't define you. It should be part of who you are.

I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely.

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

No one is any one thing.

If there ever has been any confusion about my sexuality, then you are someone that doesn't even know me!

I say, 'I'm bi, my love knows no gender,' and the straight community says, 'Oh right, that's just a cover-up - you're gay!' And the gay community says, 'Yeah right, that's just a cover-up - you're gay.' They both want to push me gay.

Frankly, no one had ever asked me before. My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.

I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.

Sexuality doesn't need to be defended or justified.

A lot of people judge bisexuality as 'being promiscuous' or something like that. But I believe you can love somebody; you can fall in love with a person's soul.

I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.