Quotes from Carmen Carrera

Couples Therapy' is pretty big for me because it's opening the door to a new audience - a hip-hop following, which I feel is a bit more judgmental toward the LGBT community.

Trans people are beautiful. It's a different kind of beauty, and it should be recognized and respected.

I don't want to reclaim the word 'tranny.' I don't want anyone to refer to me as 'tranny.'

All you have to do is respect me. Use the right words. If you don't consider me a woman, then use trans woman. Whatever works for you. But don't try to use something that's a slur or something that's meant to degrade who we are.

My favorite hip hop album would be the 'Miseducation of Lauren Hill.'

I see the human body as your soul's apartment.

There's a lot of healing that needs to happen between the LGBT community and the cisgender heterosexual world. There's a ton of misunderstanding.

Every one of us deserves the right to have a great education that's going to prepare us and give us the tools that we need in order to thrive outside of school. It's our government's responsibility to make sure that everyone is included.

I don't need to rely on my concealer to have a sense of myself. I should be able to go out without my concealer, without my makeup, and still be able to be joyful.

Trans women are a part of the female population and I think that they deserve a respectful representation.

Drag Race' was when I was kind of confused about how I wanted to live the rest of my life and I was just having fun, a little ignorant, a little young.

For a long time trans people have always been a joke. Our reputation has always been the bottom of the barrel and it's not fair.

I think that for a lot of people, I inspire them to be themselves.

I want to inspire strength. I also want to inspire people to create their own happy reality.

Everyone else is following these male and female tracks that have already been set for them, but when you're trans there is no trail.

The way I see things is that, I think that transgender people are super brave. If you're a female to male, male to female, if you're that brave to take control of your own body and make it however you want it to be, more power to you.

I would say what's really interesting about me personally is that I've taken my transgender experience, and I've looked at it on the bright side, on the positive side.

I would hope that one day there will be a time when it's not so much about transgender, it's just people will just see us as women.

For me, I know I am a trans activist and I try my best to stand up when the time is right, but at the same time, I don't always want to be considered transgender around my friends and people at my daughter's school. I just want to be considered a woman.

It's important to have transgender representation because we represent the forthcoming generation, and their new perception on the standard of beauty - which I believe is being true to yourself, loving yourself and others.

I want to be able to supply the knowledge that transgender women need in order to live peacefully and become accepted among all men and women.

I want to be respected as a woman, as a mother, as a wife. That's why I transition.

When you transition, it's a long process. Some people are so, like, ignorant about it. They're like, 'Oh she's a girl tomorrow.' It's not like that. You have to literally, you take all this medication. It's really hard on your body.

Feeling comfortable with your body as you go through a transition is not easy, and honestly, as a trans person on hormones or after surgery, you just don't really know what your results will be, how you'll finally look. Managing all of that is a challenge.