"They wanted to force me to be someone that I wasn't. They wanted me to delegitimize myself as a trans woman and I was not taking that. As a proud black trans woman, I was not going to allow the system to delegitimize, hyper-sexualize and take my identity away from me."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

CeCe McDonald

#Black Quotes #Identity Quotes #Proud Quotes

“Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they're incoherent.”
“Or as an ook comth of a litel spir, So thorugh this lettre, which that she hym sente, Encressen gan desir, of which he brente.”
“I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is, in my life, a fundamental sense of conflict between something that I am calling 'Buddhism' and my creative impulse.”
“I write constantly about everything.”
“We write to discover what we think.”
“The same way all the people I love factor inâ€”my parents, my sister, my girlfriend [Lena Dunham], my best friend, all the people I love are always right there. I don't have a lot of people in my life, but there's a small group of people that I don't like to do things without.”
“The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.”
“I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box.”

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