Words matter. These are the best Mj Rodriguez Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Today I may advocate through my art, but I’ve won my share of ‘hood fights.’ So if I ever saw one of my sisters being beaten in the street, I’d be the first one to jump in.
Home is like my detox: it’s what keeps me grounded.
It was me that was holding myself back because I felt like I had to fit into this mold of what people want to see.
‘Pose’ itself is about family. It’s about all kinds of families and how they bring themselves together and how they uplift each other and how they fight even harder to move forward.
Hopefully I can play a role where I’m not stigmatized to just being a trans woman.
When I started ‘Rent,’ I already had an idea of how I was going to portray Angel, simply because of who I was at that moment. Everyone always perceived her as a drag queen, but the reality of the matter is that I truly believe she was a trans woman.
I just want to be a light of hope for anyone who might be in the dark.
I have so many ways I can explain the ballroom scene. But the essence of the ballroom scene would be elegance, extravagance, and fabulousness to its 100 per cent. It’s a place where you can be whoever you want to be inside of already being who you are.
Throughout my life, my mom, my dad, my grandmother – these were people who made sure that I had the right people around me uplifting me.
For a long time, with a lot of women of the trans experience on television, people have only got to see one aspect of their life. With ‘Pose,’ it’s broadened the scale.
Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.
I just want to instill love into everyone’s hearts. I know that sounds cheesy, but it’s true.
It all started when I was 11 months old, singing a song by Jodeci in the back seat of the car. My mother turned around and said, ‘Who is that?’ When she saw it was me, she said, ‘I think we have a singer on our hands.’
There’s a lot of hope and comfort and nurturing in the ballroom scene.
I’m ready to get a Marvel role, honey.
Sometimes I wake up, and I wear jeans; sometimes I want to wear khakis or full-on overalls.
The one thing I thought I would never be able to do was sing on television.
When I was little, all I could think about was just being on some kind of stage, whether it be on a live stage, whether it be on a set stage.
I’m obviously fighting for my community simply because I’m trans, and I have to do that, and I do it because that’s my existence. I wake up in the morning, and that is my activism.
I started out in the ballroom scene when I was fourteen years old.
It’s a blessing that I have my family in my life and they were supportive, but there were times when I needed to find an outlet for me to understand my people and my own journey, and I found that through my chosen family, which was the ballroom community.
You can’t force anyone to understand anything that they don’t want to understand.
I always wanted to be a mom.
I had always known I was female, since I was 7 years old.
There’s so much you can say about the ballroom scene. But, simply, it’s just a way of life. It’s a place you can live out a fantasy you never lived before.
