Top 40 Indya Moore Quotes

My love is not measured in reciprocity. That’s not the way I learned love.

Human beings are addicted to power in an interesting way, and this is what makes a lot of people feel powerful: belittling people that are commonly belittled. I think if we understood that this was going on, that this was the mechanism at work within us, we wouldn’t be that way.

Narcissism is a strong word, but it is narcissistic to expect everybody in a culture to reflect your own image back at you.

The only time I’ve ever felt like I needed to measure my activity and involvement in holding people accountable for being violent on social media is when I think about the things that I might lose for saying something. That’s the only time I end up thinking about it.

I wanted to go to LaGuardia High School for acting, but my math grades weren’t high enough. So I didn’t get to go to a school that was geared toward the art that I was interested in because I wasn’t good enough at math.

Both ‘Saturday Church’ and ‘Pose’ are incredible because they demonstrate something essential about survival. When you get pushed hard enough by certain circumstances, your survival mechanism kicks in, and you grow into the things that you need or are missing in your life.

I would love to see all agencies connect to models more for who they are and can be as opposed to what they’ve done.

As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities I hold.

Eurocentric women are beautiful, but they are not the only ones out here that exist.

I want more people to hear me and be part of the change that everyone would benefit from: the change we need so that people like me can be safe and happy.

I want to see designers capitalize on a beauty that is not only white. I need them to stop acting like beautiful black and brown women do not exist.

People who have trouble finding acceptance and love in their life settle for whatever they can get.

I don’t know who I am outside of someone who’s just trying to be free and find safety for myself and for others.

I’ll use shea butter to moisturize my skin, or coconut oil.

My love is political. My body is political. I talk even when I don’t speak.

In this world, people are violent toward people that they feel are conceptualized as smaller than them. It’s an impulse that we have.

People were so cruel because of the way I existed.

I have often been many companies’ first experience with a gender-variant model. I am proud of that because I think I have broadened their horizons in my own way.

Laverne Cox, Isis King, Janet Mock, Our Lady J, Ryan Murphy, Steven Canals, the people I’ve met growing up, and even me – all have inspired me to see that it is possible to get far anywhere and that the capacity for positive and motivating influence is truly unlimited.

I think ‘Pose’ is unique in that it’s not just a trans story – it’s about family. It’s about love. It’s about friendship and acceptance and really deconstructing humanity, and the ethical side of that, with how we treat people who are different than us.

I wanted a stable job, and I wanted to feel like I was grounded with my family and to have personal relationships in my life that were healing and honest and genuine.

‘Pose’ has basically been a trip for everyone. We’re all in different phases of our individual evolutions, but we’ve embarked on the journey together.

I think people with varying experiences need to be creating.

We rarely see cisgender heterosexual men in positions where they’re nurturers. We only paint femmes, trans women, and cis women as nurturers, and because of toxic masculinity, men are taught not to be that way.

I think Hollywood is an incredible tool to teach people. It brings stories and information to the television screen, to the movie theater screens, that people get to empathize with.

Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It stopped people from listening and learning with the patience and love of the God they believe in.

I don’t know how to have fun.

When I’m around people having conversations about their day, I’m looking at them, like, ‘What could they possibly be talking about? How are we not talking about deconstructing white supremacy right now? How are we not trying to save trans people?’

Emotional information is very, very rich in influence. You’re giving somebody something to connect with, to see themselves in.

I knew I had a chance to teach the world something that would help more people be safe.

Everyone that’s ever seen ‘Pose’ who isn’t trans or doesn’t have any connection to the LGBTQ community has been given the opportunity to create empathetic relationships to the characters that they would not have otherwise been able to. That’s super essential in helping counter homophobia and transphobia.

Everything I do is political.

I didn’t want anyone to have control over how people saw me. I wanted to have that power myself.

If you tell a narcissist that someone is less than them in any way, they feel gratified; they feel very good about that.

It’s just really frustrating how people are just so selfish in this industry. It makes me very angry.

Toddlerhood, I just knew I was the farthest thing from a man. I’ve known that my whole life.

‘Pose’ feels like a family. I love them all. It’s just really beautiful to see everyone else evolve and trying to figure themselves out the same as I am.

A lot of people are afraid to use their platforms because they don’t want to lose anything they have – and that’s OK. We don’t all have to be activists, but I choose to do it because, really, what’s the worst that could happen?

I get to decide how my body shows up in any space. When I’m walking into a place like the Globes, I want to make it very clear that how I show up is to further the freedom of everybody.

I want to be a conduit for healing.