Quotes by Angelica Ross - Page 1

Having a skill makes you undeniable.
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Skill
Undeniable
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I have the drive to spend five hours a day to teach myself a skill.
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Hours
Teach
Drive
Skill
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Being trans comes at a high cost, but being black and trans can cost you your life.
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Black
Cost
Life Your Black
High
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The art of what they call female impersonation, or the drag shows, really helped me to hone what type of woman I was.
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Drag
Hone
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I actually run a nonprofit that's all about giving people opportunities to be their own heroes and do their own work.
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Work People Own
Nonprofit
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Often, if someone wants to date me because they know I'm trans, it's for specifically sexual reasons, and it doesn't ever lead to a relationship.
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Date
Sexual
Reasons
Specifically
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We have to learn to be allies to each other. We are in a deficit of financial and social capital, and TransTech aims to help trans people reverse that.
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Allies
Deficit
Financial
Reverse
Social
Aims
Capital
Each
Help
Learn
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When I was on 'Doubt' on CBS, there was a 60-second scene, but in that 60 seconds, people were so affected because it was trans women in a very normalized situation.
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Seconds
Cbs
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I discovered my path to independence through technology as well as the potential for a global lifeline for trans people around the world who were looking for the same.
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Independence
Technology
Path
Looking
Around
Same
Discovered
Global
Lifeline
Well
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I used to work at Bloomingdale's when I was transitioning, and they didn't want me using the same bathroom as the female employees or what have you, so it was a struggle.
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Bathroom
Female
Struggle
Employees
Transitioning
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I made a naive decision, and I joined the Navy. I figured I would use the G.I. Bill to pay for any college I wanted. I dreamed of going to Julliard to study music and acting.
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Navy
Dreamed
Figured
Joined
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The problem with the spectrum that is trans-ness and where people like Caitlyn Jenner lie, transitioning and being trans is more than a physical thing. Transition is a process.
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Spectrum
Transition
Process People More
Lie
Physical Thing
The Problem With
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I get by mostly on speaking engagements, but as soon as I try to pay myself, I end up having to give it back to the business to cover operating expenses or other unplanned costs.
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Expenses
Pay
Cover
Engagements
Mostly
Operating
Soon
Speaking
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I was kicked out of my own house and had my own drag mother, you know, a house mother. Things with my family are great now - my mom and dad were at the premiere - but they had kicked me out.
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Mom
Drag
Mom And Dad
Family Great Dad
Family Great Mom
Premiere
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After I came out to my mother at 17, I ran away from home and lived with a friend. We come from a highly religious family, and she could not accept it. It was devastating, and I was depressed.
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Ran
Family Home Mother
Accept
Friend
Depressed
Devastating
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They were totally uplifting my work and gave me a platform, and now I have an ongoing relationship with the White House. We're working on some very, very, very big things for the trans community.
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Uplifting
Big Things
Ongoing
White House
Totally
Platform
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In 2014, I left my job and launched TransTech Social Enterprises, a for-profit and nonprofit hybrid model focusing on the well-being of the trans community, not on external profits for shareholders.
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Hybrid
Shareholders
Well Being
External
Enterprises
Focusing
Model
Nonprofit
Profits
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Media is a double-edged sword and has the power to change hearts and minds through authentic storytelling as well as the power to paint a person, or an entire community, in a dim and misleading light.
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Community
Light
Media
Paint
Storytelling
Person
Authentic
Through
Change Power Community
Dim
Double-Edged
Double-Edged Sword
Entire
Hearts
Minds
Misleading
Well
Sword
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Let's not fantasize about having a world of only trans people or only of LGBTQ people. Let's fantasize about a world in which we all can co-exist and where there is just talent that recognizes talent.
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Talent
World Talent People
World People Where
Fantasize
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You always have some trans girl saying, 'Oh, they were just being funny! They aren't really transphobic,' Just like you will always have some black folks defending some white person for using the 'N' word because they are 'cool.'
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Being Funny
Defending
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What I would love to happen is to have people at the top of their game - straight, gay, cisgender, transgender, whatever - to volunteer with us, as long as they have something of value to offer and they see the value in our community.
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Gay
Our Community
Transgender
Volunteer
Straight
Offer
Top
Value
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What I've learned about being trans in transition is just that sometimes good things don't happen when you try to rush things. Just as a young girl grows into a young woman, you know, we transition; we grow into our bodies the same way.
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Girl
Good Things
Grows
Young
Bodies
Woman
Happen
Learned
Rush
Young Girl
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I don't know that I had context for being trans until I moved to Rochester, New York, to pursue my dream of acting, and started going to drag shows. I had never seen a transsexual before, and I didn't yet fully understand my own identity.
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Drag
Identity
Moved
Pursue
Rochester
Context
Fully
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Somebody, just because they are black, too, or just because they are trans, too, or just because they're gay and recognize I'm trans, does that mean you have the familiarity to use certain language? And I don't mean with just me but with the community.
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Black
Certain
Community
Familiarity
Gay
Somebody
Just Because
Recognize
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I had always been pegged for being feminine. People would always say, 'Ooh, that's a pretty little girl.' They would talk about my eyelashes or that I was sensitive or that I was crying all the time. I didn't want to play in the dirt outside with the boys.
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Dirt
Eyelashes
Feminine
Sensitive
Time Always People
Crying
Time People Always
Little Girl
Ooh
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I was cast in commercials, music videos, and booked a lot of modeling jobs. But my acting career never took off because I was holding myself back. I was acting across from male partners who didn't know that I am trans. I was being taught by teachers who didn't know.
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Jobs
Modeling
Partners
Taught
Across
Music Myself I Am
Acting Career
Male
Teachers
Booked
Career
Cast
Commercials
Holding
Music Videos
Took
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Visibility has an effect on those who are privileged; it brings more privilege, and on those who are marginalized, it brings more marginalization, because it also brings a spotlight onto them where they're at, in the hood or in certain places that are less tolerable.
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Certain
Hood
Marginalized
Privilege
Spotlight
Tolerable
Visibility
Also
Less
Those
Brings
Effect
Onto
Places
Where
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Basically, I'm working on global domination. I plan to have members globally. What I'm looking to do is expand in a way that allows us to provide more access and take advantage of the sort of 'world is flat' technology platform, where it doesn't matter where you're located.
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Access
Advantage
Domination
Members
Technology World Way
Technology Where World
Expand
Global
Located
Plan
Platform
Provide
Take Advantage
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I always have believed in the value of the diversity and resilience and just, really, the different skill sets that our community has. But we've never been able to find the right platform and find the right environment for us as a community - for us as a professional community.
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Environment
Our Community
Resilience
Believed
Platform
Sets
Skill
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While I don't necessarily believe the cliche that 'everything happens for a reason,' I do believe that every encounter, every situation, and every challenge I've experienced has shaped me into the woman I am today. And I am proud to say that I have never backed down from life's challenges.
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Proud
Reason
Situation
Today
Life Today Believe
Backed
Challenge
Woman
Down
Encounter
Experienced
Say
Necessarily
Shaped
While
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Technology has flattened a world where trans people are demanding their rights in the U.S. and abroad. TransTech Social Enterprises is here to empower, educate, and employ them no matter where they are. I could not turn down an opportunity for global exposure that our efforts alone might not have ever afforded us.
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Opportunity
Alone
Technology
Educate
Exposure
Rights
Technology Opportunity World
Abroad
Afforded
Demanding
Efforts
Employ
Enterprises
Flattened
Global
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What's hurtful is when you have portrayals like, you know, when you have someone like Jared Leto who accepts an award for 'Dallas Buyers Club,' after playing a trans woman, standing in a full beard and looking fully cis male: it is communicating to our audiences that underneath all of that, it's still a man under that.
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Beard
Buyers
Dallas
Hurtful
Standing
Accepts
Male
Audiences
Award
Club
Fully
Underneath
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'Pose' makes the case that it's important to have some sort of family structure, even if you have to create one. You know, if I go back home for a while, my mom will be like, 'Oh, I didn't really throw you out the house.' And I know so many other LGBT parents who don't really own or talk about the rejection, and it prevents healing.
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Healing
Rejection
Structure
Family Mom Home
Case
Family Home Mom
Family Structure
Pose
Prevents
Throw
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There are cis women who are being attacked and called men because they are wearing makeup and because they are too tall, and they might have an Adam's apple. Once cis women start to realize it's not just harmful to trans women, then we'll start to come together more and attack this together. It sucks, but we're all under the patriarchy.
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Adam
Makeup
Patriarchy
Tall
Men Women Start
Apple
Attack
Sucks
Women Men Together
Wearing
Harmful
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