Divas
"If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?"
RuPaul
"I am not afraid of who I am."
Lorde
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
E.E. Cummings
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or your right to grow."
Alice Walker
"I am my own experiment. I am my own art work."
Lady Gaga
"We're here! We're queer! Get used to it!"
Queer Nation
"We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag."
RuPaul
“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.”
Marsha P. Johnson
"Don't get bitter, just get better."
Alyssa Edwards
"My queerness is not a burden. It's my brilliance"
Janelle Monáe
"Every time someone steps up and says who they are, that world becomes a better, more interesting place."
Captain Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
"I’m not missing a minute of this—it’s the revolution!"
Sylvia Rivera
"I feel like a whole new woman."
Cher
"A woman's place is in the revolution."
Assata Shakur
"I’m a person. I have a right to the space I occupy."
James Baldwin
"History isn't made by sitting around."
Bayard Rustin