Staceyann Chin Quotes

• 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 self. It is the only way I can live and laugh without guilt.

  Staceyann Chin

  Life, Laughter, Self

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• 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 classification is key I want to erase the straight lines So I can be me

  Staceyann Chin

  Keys, Way, World

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• 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

  Girl, Thinking, Body

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• 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

  Individuality, Spoons, Flavor

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• 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

  People, Revolutionary, Hungry

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• 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 in you because you're tired or you've got no voice, you still are able to do your job and tell the story that people have come to hear.

  Staceyann Chin

  Jobs, Tired, Night

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• 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 impregnated: Don't get pregnant. You can't have sex because you might get pregnant. You can't wear short shorts because you might get pregnant. Don't talk to boys because you might get pregnant.

  Staceyann Chin

  Girl, Sex, Boys

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• I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether it's a narrative memoir, blogging for The Huffington Post, writing poems, or talking on the screen about what has happened to me and how that relates to the world at large.

  Staceyann Chin

  Writing, Talking, Trying

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• What's surprising to me now is that now that I'm talking to a lot of women about this, so many women are doing this. Straight women, lesbian women, bisexual women, poor women, White women, immigrant women. This does not affect one group.

  Staceyann Chin

  Bisexual, Talking, White

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• 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 you're not encouraged to get pregnant in your 20s. But the 30s are when the biology kind of has you by the ovaries, so to speak.

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  Years, Careers, Growth

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• I think women are deeply interested in a conversation around fertility. It's not a conversation just for one age group of women, a conversation if you're post 30 or post 35. This [is] conversation about reproduction, about taking your own power with you and deciding for yourself.

  Staceyann Chin

  Thinking, Age, Groups

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• 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 reenact the issue you're talking about or the experience that you're remembering. I mean that would kill you, you know. To experience a thing, a trauma, every single night, it would probably kill you emotionally.

  Staceyann Chin

  Mean, Night, Issues

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• You know, in Hollywood you know when somebody is getting pregnant. It's supposed to be this beautiful scene: the rays are coming in and you have these beautiful perfect bodies lying on top of each other and there's the room glowing in one person's eyes and the sun coming up over the other person's shoulder.

  Staceyann Chin

  Beautiful, Lying, Eye

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• You start doing your research and realizing that the fertility rate for women drops considerably. And you're like, "Oh my God, now I want to get pregnant, and now it's a crazy time where I might not be able to get pregnant because I'm getting older and my eggs are aging and my uterus isn't as fertile as it used to be and my loins are not where they used to be."

  Staceyann Chin

  Crazy, Eggs, Getting Older

  Source: www.ebony.com

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