Loyalty is my favorite quality in a 'bestie.'

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 consider myself an activist for women like me, who want to be confident and don't want to be judged.

Beauty comes from within, but it's up to us to use fashion and beauty to express who we are on the inside.

Beauty is the idea of who you truly are.

Beauty is the ability to utilize the tools provided in order to showcase your spirit in order to show your true soul.

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

It just so happens that I'm trans. It shouldn't have to be like 'Oh, that's the trans model selling the trans clothes.'

My life isn't really that different from a biological female.

For any model in this industry, you never know if you're going to get work. You never know if people are going to relate to you, and embrace you. And then being trans is kind of like - I hate to say it - but it's kind of like a setback.

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

It would be pretty amazing for Victoria's Secret to be that huge corporation that embraces trans women. We shop there as well.

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 run into a lot of ignorance and stupidity. It gets really frustrating, but you have to take yourself out of it and realize what's happening in the bigger picture.

When you live this trans experience, there's a point and time in your life that you almost stop developing because you don't know where to go.

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.

Stepping into the gym or going out to do sports is a scary thing for a trans person - you feel like everyone is looking at you.

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.

Being a woman means everything to me.

Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I've been set free.

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.

Luckily for me the public have known me before my transition and I've always had the same body type.

In all honesty plastic surgery these days goes hand-in-hand with beauty maintenance. It's nothing new. Who I am, my body, I was not created from surgery, at all, whatsoever.

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

I want to make 'People' magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.

Your gender should not matter in your heart or in the way you express your personality.

I got kicked out of Catholic school, by the way, because I was too feminine. I was too feminine and I had a crush on this boy named Anthony and the nuns were not having it.

I ended up going to public school in the first grade, and that's when I knew I had to be very strategic about my survival in school. I tried my best to be friends with people who were going to protect me.

We cannot let fear and terror dictate how we live our lives, no matter what. Life is a blessing with an expiration date, and we must embrace it while we can.

We must learn to exist together in peace and love people as they are. That is the only way humanity wins.

The only way to combat hate is by demonstrating empathy and love.

I've been told that I can't do things simply because I was trans.

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.

When you don't have a support system, and you're constantly being bullied for who you are, and you begin to not accept yourself for who you are, it's a distraction from schoolwork. It's a distraction from learning and from growing.

Drag has always been an open space where anyone within the LGBT community can express their creativity.

I just want to say that I'm, like, living for myself, because I was onstage at Radio City Music Hall with Christina Aguilera - and my name was on the screen. It was a big moment!

My message is: beauty has no gender. At the end of the day beauty is beauty.

I'd like to live in a country where I feel safe.

Being in the entertainment industry, I do have some privileges, but when I'm off sets and in the real world, I'm a trans individual whose rights and safety have been taken away.

Most Americans need to be told discrimination against trans people is against the law. Instead of looking at us as people, they look at us as not people. If there's a law that states this treatment is not allowed, I'd feel safer to function more confidently in society because I'd know I'm protected by the law in the country I pay taxes in.

I like to think of myself as an active American in our politics, but I get lost sometimes watching everything.