Best Laverne Cox Quotes & Sayings

I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word — Laverne Cox

Healthcare for trans women is a necessity. It is not elective. It is not cosmetic. It is life saving. — Laverne Cox

My third grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don't get him into therapy.' And wouldn't you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a lovely green and black dress. — Laverne Cox

We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you. — Laverne Cox

I have always been aware that I can never represent all trans people. No one or two or three trans people can. This is why we need diverse media representations of trans folks to multiply trans narratives in the media and depict our beautiful diversities. — Laverne Cox

There are lessons in everything. The bad, the good. Our job is to listen, and to continue to learn, so that maybe we get better at this. Maybe get better at life. — Laverne Cox

By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better. — Laverne Cox

Open your eyes to love
Open your mind for love
Open your heart and love — Eugenie Laverne Mitchell

I wanted to be famous; I wanted to perform. Those things I really, really wanted more than anything else. — Laverne Cox

We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay. — Laverne Cox

When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence. — Laverne Cox

I was assigned male at birth, is the way I like to put it, because I think we're born who we are and the gender thing is something someone imposes on you. And so I was assigned male at birth, but I always felt like I was a girl. — Laverne Cox

There was too much between them to think of any type of future. Yet, with him standing in front of her, she wanted to think of the future. Wanted him to wrap his arms round her. Kiss her. Tell her it would be all right. — LaVerne St. George

So often, trans roles don't even go to trans actors. Most of the fabulous trans roles that have won people Oscars, we didn't get to play. A lot of folks have said we're not trained enough and that we're not prepared to do whatever. — Laverne Cox

My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people. — Laverne Cox

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened. — Laverne Cox

In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film. — Garry Marshall

Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly. — Laverne Cox

What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned. — Laverne Cox

Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch 3', 'Cagney and Lacey', 'Wonder Twins Activate From Two Hot Broads', 'Little House on the Prairie: The Musical: The Movie'. — Amy Poehler

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet. — Laverne Cox

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself. — Laverne Cox

This whole city's a Freudian slip of the tongue, a concrete hard-on for America's deeds and misdeeds. Slavery? Manifest Destiny? Laverne & Shirley? Standing by idly while Germany tried to kill every Jew in Europe? Why some of my best friends are the Museum of African Art, the Holocaust Museum, the Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of Women in the Arts. And furthermore, I'll have you know, my sister's daughter is married to an orangutan. — Paul Beatty

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me. — Laverne Cox

There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience. — Laverne Cox

Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks. — Laverne Cox

I was an actress long before I was a reality TV person. — Laverne Cox

The one ugly one, Laverne, wasn't too bad a dancer, but the other one, old Marty, was murder. Old Marty was like dragging the Statue of Liberty around the floor. — J.D. Salinger

We shouldn't demonize the woman who wears high heels and we shouldn't demonize the woman who doesn't wear high heels. We should accept all forms of comportment. — Laverne Cox

The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences. — Laverne Cox