Words matter. These are the best Marsha P. Johnson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.
STAR is a very revolutionary group. We believe in picking up the gun, starting a revolution if necessary. Our main goal is to see gay people liberated and free and have equal rights that other people have in America.
I know people think I’m a stupid little street queen out there begging for change cause there’s nothing else she knows how to do.
I don’t know what I am if I’m not a woman.
You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.
I got robbed once. A man pulled a gun on me and snatched my pocketbook in a car. I don’t trust men that much any more.
How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We’re all in this rat race together!
I never come out of drag to go anywhere. Everywhere I go I get all dressed up.
They call me a legend in my own time, because there were so many queens gone that I’m one of the few queens left from the ’70s and the ’80s.
I’m still stuck in the Stonewall in 1968. I never left the Stonewall.
There are a lot of gay transvestites who have been in jail for no reason at all.
I got lost in the music in 1963 at Stonewall… No! No, it was Stonewall – it was 1967 that I got lost. In 19 – oh my dear, Stonewall, I got lost at Stonewall. Heard it through the grapevine. 1969! I got lost in the music and I couldn’t get out.
Gay sisters don’t think too bad of transvestites. Gay brothers do.
I started out with makeup in 1963, 1964. And in 1965, I was coming out more, and I was still wearing makeup, but I was still going to jail just for wearing makeup.
I’ll always be known reaching out to young people who have no one to help them out, so I help them out with a place to stay or some food to eat or some change for their pocket.
I may be crazy, but that don’t make me wrong.
Darling, I want my gay rights now.
Now they got two little nice statues in Chariot Park to remember the gay movement. How many people have died for these two little statues to be put in the park for them to recognize gay people?
