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I don't know how to have fun.
I want to be a conduit for healing.
Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.
People were so cruel because of the way I existed.
I don't like following the rules - the patriarchal rules.
I'll use shea butter to moisturize my skin, or coconut oil.
Our government is not protecting us. They are exploiting us.
We will fight ignorance and a lack of information with information.
My love is not measured in reciprocity. That's not the way I learned love.
My love is political. My body is political. I talk even when I don't speak.
Eurocentric women are beautiful, but they are not the only ones out here that exist.
I knew I had a chance to teach the world something that would help more people be safe.
Toddlerhood, I just knew I was the farthest thing from a man. I've known that my whole life.
I didn't want anyone to have control over how people saw me. I wanted to have that power myself.
We're standing on the shoulders of so many people who have already broken down so many barriers.
People who have trouble finding acceptance and love in their life settle for whatever they can get.
I feel like being vocal on social media, especially working in an industry that is very Eurocentric.
It's just really frustrating how people are just so selfish in this industry. It makes me very angry.
I don't know who I am outside of someone who's just trying to be free and find safety for myself and for others.
I would love to see all agencies connect to models more for who they are and can be as opposed to what they've done.
If you tell a narcissist that someone is less than them in any way, they feel gratified; they feel very good about that.
I always believed that clothes should be designed to conform to our bodies and not our bodies to conform to the clothing.
Narcissism is a strong word, but it is narcissistic to expect everybody in a culture to reflect your own image back at you.
We deserve the same things that cis women do, the same things that other humans do, from our social lives to our families to love.
In this world, people are violent toward people that they feel are conceptualized as smaller than them. It's an impulse that we have.
We have so many different television programs and various things that teach us about the lives of people we will never meet otherwise.
As a black person of non-gender-conforming experience, my first existentially reciprocal and affirming experiences were in the New York ballrooms.
As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities I hold.
I want to see designers capitalize on a beauty that is not only white. I need them to stop acting like beautiful black and brown women do not exist.
'Pose' has basically been a trip for everyone. We're all in different phases of our individual evolutions, but we've embarked on the journey together.
'Pose' feels like a family. I love them all. It's just really beautiful to see everyone else evolve and trying to figure themselves out the same as I am.
I want more people to hear me and be part of the change that everyone would benefit from: the change we need so that people like me can be safe and happy.
I have often been many companies' first experience with a gender-variant model. I am proud of that because I think I have broadened their horizons in my own way.
Historically, our culture has not made room for the nuances of humanity. People have not been kept safe: women, people of colour, queer people, transgender people.
I wanted a stable job, and I wanted to feel like I was grounded with my family and to have personal relationships in my life that were healing and honest and genuine.
As a person of color, I feel like I'm socialized to feel like a remnant of poverty or something primitive, and I don't feel like that at all. I can be myself and be me.
Binaries definitely keep us from progressing. Imagine if we didn't have political parties and just had people who worked together to improve the life quality of everyone.
I think Hollywood is an incredible tool to teach people. It brings stories and information to the television screen, to the movie theater screens, that people get to empathize with.
We rarely see cisgender heterosexual men in positions where they're nurturers. We only paint femmes, trans women, and cis women as nurturers, and because of toxic masculinity, men are taught not to be that way.
I think 'Pose' is really a groundbreaking television show because we're telling stories about family and love through people that society has always believed were incapable of having that or being a part of that.
I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection.
I wanted to go to LaGuardia High School for acting, but my math grades weren't high enough. So I didn't get to go to a school that was geared toward the art that I was interested in because I wasn't good enough at math.
Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It stopped people from listening and learning with the patience and love of the God they believe in.
A lot of people are afraid to use their platforms because they don't want to lose anything they have - and that's OK. We don't all have to be activists, but I choose to do it because, really, what's the worst that could happen?
It's the Met Gala - everyone is huge. It feels very hierarchical, and I get really nervous in hierarchical spaces because I feel like everyone deserves to feel just as special as everyone else, but that's just not the way it is in this business.
When I'm around people having conversations about their day, I'm looking at them, like, 'What could they possibly be talking about? How are we not talking about deconstructing white supremacy right now? How are we not trying to save trans people?'
I think 'Pose' is unique in that it's not just a trans story - it's about family. It's about love. It's about friendship and acceptance and really deconstructing humanity, and the ethical side of that, with how we treat people who are different than us.
Slowly but surely, little by little, many different groups of vulnerable bodies and people have been targeted from since the beginning of time, from since the beginning of the construction of America and all the civilizations from around the world pre-colonially.
The only time I've ever felt like I needed to measure my activity and involvement in holding people accountable for being violent on social media is when I think about the things that I might lose for saying something. That's the only time I end up thinking about it.
Laverne Cox, Isis King, Janet Mock, Our Lady J, Ryan Murphy, Steven Canals, the people I've met growing up, and even me - all have inspired me to see that it is possible to get far anywhere and that the capacity for positive and motivating influence is truly unlimited.