As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom somewhere.

I just think women are funnier than men.

It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real.

I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do.

My philosophy is, "murder the rapist in your mind so you stop killing yourself." I've seen, in my lifetime, that sexual abuse has turned into self-abuse. When I kill the rapist inside of me, I will stop killing myself.