Who you are authentically is alright.

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.

Perhaps it's impolite to die so flippantly, after all she's done for me.

When you confront, you get goals faster.

You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have