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

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.

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

Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.

Fall several times doesn't matter, how many times you stand up matters

She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.

I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.

It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.

I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.

I try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.