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The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans. ”
Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation. ”
There's a rumor that my great-grandmother was 6'7''. I don't know if it's necessarily true, but that's a big woman. ”
The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man. ”
If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives. ”
I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to. ”
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls. ”
We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime. ”
I'm obviously fighting for my community simply because I'm trans, and I have to do that, and I do it because that's my existence. I wake up in the morning, and that is my activism. ”
It's a blessing that I have my family in my life and they were supportive, but there were times when I needed to find an outlet for me to understand my people and my own journey, and I found that through my chosen family, which was the ballroom community. ”