Quotes by Laverne Cox

Laverne Cox

Being a black transgender woman in America is really hard. It’s been really hard for me. But for me living a lie was much worse. I need to be in my truth. And I’ve been very, very lucky that I’ve been able to live my dreams and I believe everyone should have the right to live their dreams. This is America. We’re supposed to all have that right.

Believe

Dream

Lying

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

Believe

Belonging

Sin

Beyoncé means so much to me. Throughout my transition, Beyoncé has been there as a style icon, an example of excellence, of beauty, of vulnerability. She’s shared so much of herself, and it’s inspiring.

Excellence

Mean

Style

Beyoncé says it was Mathew Knowles, her father, who made her understand discipline and work ethic, what it means to come in early before class starts to stretch, or to work on your dégagés or your pirouettes or whatever it was. I was a turner! So to come in early and then to stay afterward and to just soak up everything that the teacher has, that’s really what it’s about – the striving for excellence.

Father

Mean

Teacher

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

Believe

I Believe

Love Each Other

Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able to become liberators for ourselves and for each other.

Able

Might

Want

Healthcare for trans women is a necessity. It is not elective. It is not cosmetic. It is life saving.

Cosmetics

Healthcare

Saving

I believe if we have something that we love to do, that can save our lives. That can get us through.

Believe

I Believe

Our Lives

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.

Believe

Stories

Voice

I don’t think there’s a right or wrong things in your style. It’s about how you clearly reflect who you are; how you more clearly tell the story. Who are you? How do you want to transmit that to the world, and how do you more clearly say that? Then I have a philosophy, FFPS: fit, fabric, proportion, and silhouette. Proportion’s everything, really, knowing your body and understanding that. Those things have been really crucial for me. It’s about being clear about the story you want to tell to the world about who you are – and maybe a little bit of FFPS.

Philosophy

Thinking

Understanding

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Able

Accepting

Acts Of Violence

Alright

Attitude

Badass

Beautiful

Believe

Bells

Belonging

Black

Book

Born

Brother

Cosmetics

Differences

Discipline

Dream

Equality

Excellence

Eye

Fashion

Father

Form

Gay

Gender

Get Better

Girl

Grateful

Healthcare

High Heels

Home

Honestly

Hook

I Believe

Ideas

Inspiring

Issues

Jobs

Kids

Knows

Lessons

Love Each Other

Luxury

Lying

Made

Males

Mean

Media

Men

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Quotes by Laverne Cox

Laverne Cox

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

Beyoncé means so much to me. Throughout my transition, Beyoncé has been there as a style icon, an example of excellence, of beauty, of vulnerability. She’s shared so much of herself, and it’s inspiring.

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

Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able to become liberators for ourselves and for each other.

Healthcare for trans women is a necessity. It is not elective. It is not cosmetic. It is life saving.

I believe if we have something that we love to do, that can save our lives. That can get us through.

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.

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