Being self-supporting is important to me.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

I came out around 25 publicly.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.

Peace and anger cannot coexist.in fact there is a high negative corelation, the higher the anger lesser the peace and lesser the anger higher the peace...Zero anger is probably bliss.

You don't invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature.

The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.

Beautiful things make people happy.

Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.

The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

New York is a fun town to go out in. During my twenties and into my thirties I had a good time partying, yes. But nothing where I woke up and I thought that I had a problem.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.