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Carmen Carrera

92 quotes in 333 categories

Drag has always been an open space where anyone in the LGBT community can show creativity. Carmen Carrera’s quotes explain how she tries to inspire people to be themselves, how she feels the weight of speaking for her community, and how she deals with ignorance while staying hopeful. She also shares the joy of seeing media help others learn about LGBT lives.

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Carmen Carrera is an American reality television personality, model, burlesque performer, and actress, known for appearing on the third season of the Logo reality television series RuPaul's Drag Race, as well as its spin-off series RuPaul's Drag U. Carrera is a transgender woman and transgender righ

Quotes by Carmen Carrera

My family is very supportive, lucky for me.

Encouraging

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I always love working with other creative talent.

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Beauty is the idea of who you truly are.

Beauty

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Being a woman means everything to me.

Being

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I'm a show girl at heart.

Girl

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Loyalty is my favorite quality in a 'bestie.'

Excellence

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

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I want to be a mom. I want to be a wife.

Marriage

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

Beauty

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I wasn't a masculine kid; I was pretty effeminate.

Effeminate

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Being a voice for my community is something that I don't take lightly.

Being

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I don't know any lingerie brands that really embrace transgender women at all, to be honest.

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

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My favorite hip hop album would be the 'Miseducation of Lauren Hill.'

Album

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I like to jump around, and it takes a long time for people to catch up to me sometimes.

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

Gender

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If I ever feel like I don't know what to do next, I always think about WWJD, like 'what would J-Lo do,'…

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And I come from a very proud Hispanic family. We're proud to be Latino. We're proud to be Peruvian. And my dad's…

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I would hope that one day there will be a time when it's not so much about transgender, it's just people will…

Day

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As someone who's visible, I feel it's part of my responsibility to have a voice for trans people because the fight is…

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In my early 20s, I set out to kind of find myself. At that time, if you were different or if you…

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Respectable transwomen were not as visible and very unclear in how they defined themselves. I had no one to look up to,…

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

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There's a lot of healing that needs to happen between the LGBT community and the cisgender heterosexual world. There's a ton of…

Community

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Courtney Love gave me advice on how to stay focused. She told me I have a lot of positivity and I have…

Advice

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I would love to do more modeling. I would love to do anything really, mainstream, and help to create, I guess, a…

Acceptance

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I ended up going to public school in the first grade, and that's when I knew I had to be very strategic…

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It's important to have transgender representation because we represent the forthcoming generation, and their new perception on the standard of beauty -…

Beauty

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When you don't have a support system, and you're constantly being bullied for who you are, and you begin to not accept…

Accept yourself

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I don't dedicate my whole life to being a trans advocate. But I do believe that me, and how I represent myself…

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The way I see things is that, I think that transgender people are super brave. If you're a female to male, male…

Body

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I know during my transition it was difficult for me to stop believing I would be stuck unhappy forever, but that's not…

Feelings

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

Country

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When I was a kid, I was really quiet.

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

Empathy

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I want to be a successful trans woman burlesque performer.

Burlesque

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If people can understand me and accept me as a woman, I'm going to get booked for more jobs.

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I think that for a lot of people, I inspire them to be themselves.

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I want to be respected as a woman, as a mother, as a wife. That's why I transition.

Marriage

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

Beautiful

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