When you are doing seven shows a week, you have to take care of yourself. There are some moments when you cannot allow yourself to emotionally reenac…

- Staceyann Chin

I think one of the most radical things a girl can do is to own her body. And we learn so young not to own these bodies of ours.

- Staceyann Chin

I am too many flavors for one f***ing spoon. I want to erase the lines so I can be me. If we do not speak, who will?

- Staceyann Chin

Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold on to the better parts of my human se…

- Staceyann Chin

Hungry people make the best revolutionaries. Because when you're hungry, it's easy to get angry about things that aren't right.

- Staceyann Chin

There are those nights where you are just so emotionally present that you crack yourself open. And it works. And on the nights when you don't have it…

- Staceyann Chin

It's so funny the world we live in now. The years where you are most fertile, those are also the fertile years for career and personal growth. And so…

- Staceyann Chin

Women of color, particularly Black girls from economically challenged strati, we are told from the minute you start showing signs of being able to be…

- Staceyann Chin

I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize me In this world where class…

- Staceyann Chin