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“You were capable of imagining a different future. And maybe it won’t be realized today, maybe not in our lifetime. Maybe it will take generations. We’re all part of a continuum. Does that make it pointless?”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“It’s not what they think about me, it’s what I think of myself that matters. It took forever to figure out who I was when I was younger. You don’t know who to talk to, and you feel as if you’re alone, and no one else in the world has the issues or the problems that you have. You don’t feel comfortable, but you don’t have the words or understanding of exactly where you fit in. Some older person would notice and say, well, “You’re different,” and that was enough justification to fuck with you. And then over time you realize it’s because they’re not comfortable with who they are. And lucky you, you get to be the person they fuck with, so they can make themselves feel better about not knowing where they fit in. And then as you get older and get out more, you realize, “Oh, there’s other people.” And so you may meet one person who’s transgender. “Ooh, there’s two of us.” Over time you learn that there’s three, and eventually, that there’s a community.”
― Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

“When you're a kid, you assume you're just getting a taste for all the memorable experiences life has in store for you, but the truth is, most people don't spend countless nights running through the streets with their friends. They spend a handful of nights doing that if they're lucky.”
― Emily R. Austin, We Could Be Rats

“You can’t throw anybody under the bus. You can’t leave anybody behind. And that’s become my favorite thing to say to people: I won’t throw anybody under the bus, and I’m not leaving anybody. It has to include us all, or it’s not going to work.”
― Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary