Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks.

It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.

We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.

If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.

We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.

By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.

There are lessons in everything. The bad, the good. Our job is to listen, and to continue to learn, so that maybe we get better at this. Maybe get better at life.

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened.

I believe that when we love someone, we respect them, and we listen to them; we feel that their voice matters. And- we let them dictate the terms of who they are and what their story is.

Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.

When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.

Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you.

May God grant you more grace, strength and wisdom.

Emotion has its place, but it must not interfere with taking the appropriate action.

Some people fight with each other for worldly thrones

You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

Power is neither good nor evil.

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

Those two teachers [Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann] were just fantastic, I thought. They never directed you in a single direction, but they just encouraged you to think for yourself.