People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.

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Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

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Some of us wear the mask prouder than others.

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Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

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You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.

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I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women.

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We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.

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You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.

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To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, 'I was born this way baby.

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If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

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