Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything about your body, have always been a dangerous space for me.

What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.

Be stingy with your time and spend it in spaces that fill you up.

Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances.

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.

I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.

Pride is a good horse if thou ridest wisely

Annihilate the enemy with acts of kindness only you can afford.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.