Indya Moore

“A lot of times, when parents overdiscipline their children, especially when they're queer, their intention isn't to hurt them. They think they're saving their children from harm. But they don't realize that they're causing harm, that they're doing to their kids exactly what they're afraid of the world doing to them.”

“As a person of color, I feel like I'm socialized to feel like a remnant of poverty or something primitive, and I don't feel like that at all. I can be myself and be me.”

“People who have trouble finding acceptance and love in their life settle for whatever they can get.”

“We rarely see cisgender heterosexual men in positions where they're nurturers. We only paint femmes, trans women, and cis women as nurturers, and because of toxic masculinity, men are taught not to be that way.”

“I didn't want anyone to have control over how people saw me. I wanted to have that power myself.”

“I wanted a stable job, and I wanted to feel like I was grounded with my family and to have personal relationships in my life that were healing and honest and genuine.”

“We have so many different television programs and various things that teach us about the lives of people we will never meet otherwise.”

“Emotional information is very, very rich in influence. You're giving somebody something to connect with, to see themselves in.”

“I'm not particular about makeup, but when I do wear it, I am partial to Fenty. That is what I own. I own it because it is partial to the various colors and shades of black women. It is one of the best cosmetic companies around as far as trying to remove toxins from makeup, and Rihanna is empathetic to the experiences of trans women.”

“I'll use shea butter to moisturize my skin, or coconut oil.”

“A lot of people are afraid to use their platforms because they don't want to lose anything they have - and that's OK. We don't all have to be activists, but I choose to do it because, really, what's the worst that could happen?”

“I get to decide how my body shows up in any space. When I'm walking into a place like the Globes, I want to make it very clear that how I show up is to further the freedom of everybody.”

“The only time I've ever felt like I needed to measure my activity and involvement in holding people accountable for being violent on social media is when I think about the things that I might lose for saying something. That's the only time I end up thinking about it.”

“I have often been many companies' first experience with a gender-variant model. I am proud of that because I think I have broadened their horizons in my own way.”

“As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities I hold.”

“My love is not measured in reciprocity. That's not the way I learned love.”

“Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.”

“I don't like following the rules - the patriarchal rules.”

“I think 'Pose' is really a groundbreaking television show because we're telling stories about family and love through people that society has always believed were incapable of having that or being a part of that.”

“In this world, people are violent toward people that they feel are conceptualized as smaller than them. It's an impulse that we have.”