Happy Pride Month 2021! This June, we are featuring inspirational quotes from extraordinary LGBTQ+ leaders. 🏳️‍🌈

Laverne Cox (1972-) is an American actress and LGBTQ+ advocate, known for her role as Sophia Burset in Orange Is The New Black. She is noted by many for being a trailblazer for the transgender community.

She is the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2015, Cox won a Daytime Emmy as an executive producer, becoming the first transgender woman to win the award. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on US broadcast TV.

Cox became the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine, and Cosmopolitan magazine. She is also the first transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds.

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⚡️ Audre Lorde - "When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision - then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

🌱Alan Turing - "Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."

🎯Andrea Jenkins - "If you can conceive it, and believe it, you can achieve it. But there must be a plan. We have to set goals. Review them constantly. Shift directions when necessary. But, always stay focused."

✨ Shamina Singh - "To innovate [...] you need to have people of different backgrounds, and people who think differently when they are looking at the same situation you are, with a different set of eyes."