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.

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

Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks.

I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work.

When you train as a dancer, you understand you have to work exceptionally hard. I think dancers are the hardest - working people in show business. You have to push your body beyond where you thought it could go. It's athleticism. Perfection doesn't exist, but with classical ballet, there is an ideal, and I got obsessed with that ideal. In some ways, it was problematic because I don't have an ideal ballet body, but the discipline is what I carry with me to this day. That's my park, the discipline of dancing.

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

I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word