Quotes About Empowerment

Equal rights for women and queer folks!

There is no separation between the black community and the LGBT community. As a black, queer woman myself, I often have to assert, right, that it's not one or the other but that I am all of these things.

We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk - we have been leading movements for a long time, but we have been erased from the official narrative.

We believe the Queer community is a model for our global extended family, and together we have the power to create positive change for all of humanity.

The queer community deserves a happy ending just as much as anybody else.

I am part of a legacy of queer black women who have fought for the freedom of black people across the globe.

I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands - is 'We exist.'

I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

Queer is invincible because people have tried everything - haven't they? What haven't they tried to do to queer people? And horrible things happened. But you never stop, because it's the truth of who you are.

My queer black women peers are the ones who make me not feel crazy. The way we act is so instinctive.

I take the time to show up for people in my field who are often not seen and heard in the same capacity as I am. Applauding other women and queer writers of color enables me to recognize and showcase the abundance of talent and work being created.

In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer, Latinx gaze.

My favorite job, and definitely the one that means the most to me, is 'Queer Eye.'

It's not called 'Queer Eye For the Straight Guy' now for a reason. We want to be able to help more and more people, and why wouldn't we help women, and why wouldn't we help a trans man? I want to help as many different groups as physically possible with this show.

We need to continue to build and support queer and trans communities and end the profiling and criminalization that so many face.

I always was missing that female brown queer perspective, and I think in 'Vida' we have that. A lot of things I wanted to touch on and deal with, I get to do here.

Each and every one of us has multiple identities, and this is a fact that should be celebrated. I for example, am a queer black woman who grew up poor in Los Angeles.

Encourage your friend and family member who are queer parents of color to post their stories and share it with the world. It's time for us to be seen.

Coming from a town of 30,000 people on the Mississippi River, having 'Queer Eye' in 2003 through 2007 when I was in high school was really important.

I grew up in a town of 30,000 people, and 'Queer Eye' was a beacon of light.

I'm determined to only work with women or queer people because it's always a straight dude at the soundboard. I just don't want to do that anymore! It dilutes the fruit-ness!

To see queer people keeping each other down makes me so sad because I've been around for a long time - I've seen the people who came before us fight for what we have right now, and they did not fight like that for us to go backwards.

Shows like 'Superstore' and certainly 'Pose' are leading the way and showing queer people of color in a much more complex, nuanced light that we've never seen.

I want to see some queer politicians, some drag queens and drag kings running for office and shifting the way that policy is made as well.