Barriers Quote by Cynthia Garrett

I mean, I always just ignored the glass ceilings and didn't let gender get in my own way, which I think was very important…

— Kari Skogland

I was absolutely always aware of how my race and gender affected how people treat me.

— Nia DaCosta

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

— Patti Smith

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

— Princess Nokia

I've always presented as a very cisgender male and that was part of the reason I was able to cover so easily... I was…

— Eugene Lee Yang

I consciously learned and performed my race like a teacher's pet in an advanced placement course on black masculinity.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily…

— Tom Robbins

I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity, not having the language to talk about it, and not feeling safe in…

— Asia Kate Dillon

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

— Shirley Chisholm

I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in…

— Eartha Kitt

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to…

— Lynn Coady