Quotes from Indya Moore

It's just really frustrating how people are just so selfish in this industry. It makes me very angry.

A lot of times, when parents overdiscipline their children, especially when they're queer, their intention isn't to hurt them. They think they're saving their children from harm. But they don't realize that they're causing harm, that they're doing to their kids exactly what they're afraid of the world doing to them.

I wanted to go to LaGuardia High School for acting, but my math grades weren't high enough. So I didn't get to go to a school that was geared toward the art that I was interested in because I wasn't good enough at math.

Narcissism is a strong word, but it is narcissistic to expect everybody in a culture to reflect your own image back at you.

As a black person of non-gender-conforming experience, my first existentially reciprocal and affirming experiences were in the New York ballrooms.

I don't know how to have fun.

I want to be a conduit for healing.

I have often been many companies' first experience with a gender-variant model. I am proud of that because I think I have broadened their horizons in my own way.

I think Hollywood is an incredible tool to teach people. It brings stories and information to the television screen, to the movie theater screens, that people get to empathize with.

I'm not particular about makeup, but when I do wear it, I am partial to Fenty. That is what I own. I own it because it is partial to the various colors and shades of black women. It is one of the best cosmetic companies around as far as trying to remove toxins from makeup, and Rihanna is empathetic to the experiences of trans women.

As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities I hold.

We will fight ignorance and a lack of information with information.

I'm really proud of the way that 'Pose' has brought people's families together and touched people's hearts and opened people's minds. It's really incredible to see. It's a show about love and family, and it highlights what it really means to have a family and to be a family and to love your family.

We rarely see cisgender heterosexual men in positions where they're nurturers. We only paint femmes, trans women, and cis women as nurturers, and because of toxic masculinity, men are taught not to be that way.

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

Historically, our culture has not made room for the nuances of humanity. People have not been kept safe: women, people of colour, queer people, transgender people.

I'll use shea butter to moisturize my skin, or coconut oil.

We're standing on the shoulders of so many people who have already broken down so many barriers.

'Pose' has basically been a trip for everyone. We're all in different phases of our individual evolutions, but we've embarked on the journey together.

People who have trouble finding acceptance and love in their life settle for whatever they can get.

It's the Met Gala - everyone is huge. It feels very hierarchical, and I get really nervous in hierarchical spaces because I feel like everyone deserves to feel just as special as everyone else, but that's just not the way it is in this business.

I want more people to hear me and be part of the change that everyone would benefit from: the change we need so that people like me can be safe and happy.

I knew I had a chance to teach the world something that would help more people be safe.

If you tell a narcissist that someone is less than them in any way, they feel gratified; they feel very good about that.