Janet Mock Quotes

It seems only fitting that we have a trans superhero for trans kids to look up to. I wish there was a trans superhero when I was little.

When I first appeared in the media, it was rare to see trans people on TV, and young trans kids were unheard of.

I don't want the same trans story to be told over and over again. I don't want people to get stuck on this very western idea of what it means to be transgender.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

Poverty is no disgrace, but it's no honor either.

Poverty breeds a lack of self reliance.

The United States has the best sick care system in the world, however, the health care system remains fragmented and limited, particularly for African Americans who carry a disproportionate burden of disease, hunger, homelessness, and poverty.

The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty

There are many communities in the United States where the average family income is pitifully low. It is in those communities that we find the poorest educational facilities and the worst conditions of health. Why? It is not because they are satisfied to live as they do. It is because those communities have the lowest per capital wealth and income; therefore the lowest ability to pay taxes; and therefore inadequate functioning of local government.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.

We didn't have money all the time to do laundry. A lot of the time, we didn't have soap or hot water. We were smart kids academically, but we'd go to school smelling.

Society doesn't tell you that you can be trans.

I think Medicaid harms people.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It's the sort of thing to me that's obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.

Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.

I am very close to a number of actresses who are trans and hungry for parts.

Three trans women came up to me separately to tell me they had felt such a connection with Ava in 'Ex Machina' and her dream of finally coming to full female fruition. They had all cried; one said she was very emotional during the scene where Ava finally puts her skin on for the first time.

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

I've worked with and talked to poor people my entire life, being in the pawn shop business.

Growing up, I never saw images of trans people succeeding.

As a prominent trans person, you hope that someone feels they know you and then thinks of you at the polls; you hope to impact the way they act when they encounter a trans person in real life.

Poverty makes you work really hard.

Trans people should be able to fall in love and sing love songs too, and have that be just as valid. You turn on the radio and every other song is some guy singing about some girl who broke his heart, or vice versa. And there's not a lot of trans representation with that.