He’s the one that let me know that during things like the riot or getting justice done—stuff like that—you can’t throw anybody under the bus. You can’t leave anybody behind. And that’s become my favorite thing to say to people: I won’t throw anybody under the bus, and I’m not leaving anybody. It has to include us all, or it’s not going to work. It was mind-altering. It was like that epiphany that rings a bell in your brain. Bong! That’s what it did. And so I’ve spent the next forty years trying to find out what bell I can set off to wake up my community.
Toshio Meronek, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary (2022) — Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary