Amandla Stenberg Quotes

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order.

I've struggled with gender norms my whole life, always feeling like I wasn't black-and-white; I was in this gray area, and gray areas really scare people because you can't define them.

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

We need to overcome the stereotype that genders aren't fluid.

I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

I wish everything was gender neutral. I wish we weren't separated by boundaries like pink and blue and little things like that. I wish we could choose how we express ourselves without hate.

I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

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

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

The gender question has always obsessed me.

I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.

I don't understand when you say I'm a man or I have a deep voice. I know I'm a female, so there's no question for me.

Either men cannot be women or there is not such thing as a woman.

I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature.

No one has ever seen me as feminine.