There are those nights where you are just so emotionally present that you crack yourself open. And it works. And on the nights when you don't have it in you because you're tired or you've got no voice, you still… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
When you are doing seven shows a week, you have to take care of yourself. There are some moments when you cannot allow yourself to emotionally reenact the issue you're talking about or the experience that you're remembering. I mean… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
There are those nights where you are just so emotionally present that you crack yourself open. And it works. And on the nights when… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize me In… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
“I'm a woman. That means I break hard. And mend like a motherfucker; all sexy and full of heartbreakingly beautiful scars.” — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
It's so funny the world we live in now. The years where you are most fertile, those are also the fertile years for career… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
I am too many flavors for one f***ing spoon. I want to erase the lines so I can be me. If we do not… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
“Miles of junk to throw out -- how do you decide what to keep when everything is sentiment.” — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
I think one of the most radical things a girl can do is to own her body. And we learn so young not to… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
When you are doing seven shows a week, you have to take care of yourself. There are some moments when you cannot allow yourself… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
What's surprising to me now is that now that I'm talking to a lot of women about this, so many women are doing this.… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
Hungry people make the best revolutionaries. Because when you're hungry, it's easy to get angry about things that aren't right. — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
You know, in Hollywood you know when somebody is getting pregnant. It's supposed to be this beautiful scene: the rays are coming in and… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
I think women are deeply interested in a conversation around fertility. It's not a conversation just for one age group of women, a conversation… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether it's a… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
Women of color, particularly Black girls from economically challenged strati, we are told from the minute you start showing signs of being able to… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share
