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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.

Laverne Cox

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Laverne Cox
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 29
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I have always been aware that I can never represent all trans people. No one or two or three trans people can. This is why we need diverse media representations of trans folks to multiply trans narratives in the media and depict our beautiful diversities.
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By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.
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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.
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Quality is my principle and qualified is my attitude.
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My third grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don't get him into therapy.' And wouldn't you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a lovely green and black dress.
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I was assigned male at birth, is the way I like to put it, because I think... we're born who we are... and the gender thing is something someone imposes on you. And so, I was assigned male at birth, but I always felt like I was a girl.
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I'm so grateful that I had the luxury of transitioning in private. Because when you transition in the public eye, the transition becomes the story.
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When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference.
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When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened.
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