Quotes by Marsha P. Johnson - Page 1

Darling, I want my gay rights now.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Darling
Gay
Gay Rights
Rights
Now
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I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.
Marsha P. Johnson /
I Am Know Am
Woman
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I may be crazy, but that don't make me wrong.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Crazy
May
Make
Wrong
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In 1969, I started wearing female attire full-time.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Attire
Female
Full-Time
Wearing
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I'd been going to jail for like, 10 years before the Stonewall.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Jail
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Gay sisters don't think too bad of transvestites. Gay brothers do.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Brothers
Sisters
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I'm still stuck in the Stonewall in 1968. I never left the Stonewall.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Left
Stuck
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I was no one, nobody from Nowheresville, until I became a drag queen.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Drag
Became
Nobody
Queen
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I never come out of drag to go anywhere. Everywhere I go I get all dressed up.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Drag
Everywhere
Anywhere
Dressed
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There are a lot of gay transvestites who have been in jail for no reason at all.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Jail
No Reason
Reason
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You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Rights
Person
Never
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As long as gay people don't have their rights all across America, there's no reason for celebration.
Marsha P. Johnson /
America
Celebration
Gay
Long
No Reason
Reason
Rights
Long Gay People
Across
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I think if transvestites don't stand up for themselves, nobody else is going to stand up for transvestites.
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Nobody Else
Stand Up
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We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Enough
Had Enough
Harassment
Police
Village
Places
Saying
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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.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Trust
Car
Gun
Pocketbook
Pulled
Robbed
Snatched
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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.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Begging
Stupid
Cause
Street
Queen
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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.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Queens
Left
My Own
Call
Legend
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A lot of times I've reached my hand out to people in the gay community that just didn't have nobody to help them when they were down and out.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Community
Gay
Gay Community
Nobody
Community Gay People
Times
Hand
Help
Reached
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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.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Jail
Makeup
Coming
Wearing
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A drag queen is one that usually goes to a ball and that's the only time she gets dressed up. Transvestites live in drag. A transsexual spends most of her life in drag.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Drag
Only Time
Life Time Live
Ball
Dressed
Gets
Goes
Queen
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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.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Reaching
Change Food People
Stay
Help
Pocket
Young People
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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?
Marsha P. Johnson /
Died
Gay
Movement
Nice
Remember
Statues
Two
Chariot
Gay Movement
How Many People
Put
Park
Recognize
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History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.
Marsha P. Johnson /
History
Cumulative
Happens
Impulsive
Inevitable
People
History Look People
Decisions
Because
Very
History Moment People
Make
Back
Those
You
Say
Look
Moment
Realities
Something
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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!
Marsha P. Johnson /
Brothers And Sisters
Human Beings
Mean
People
Race
Rat Race
Together
Years
Together People See
Does
Beings
Brothers
Sisters
Take
Many
How
Human
Rat
Realize
See
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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.
Marsha P. Johnson /
America
Equal
Equal Rights
Gay
Goal
Gun
Liberated
Revolution
Revolutionary
Rights
Very
Free
Star
Group
Main
Necessary
Other
Picking
See
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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.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Dear
Heard
Lost
Oh
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I don't think you should be ashamed of anybody that you know that has AIDS. You should stand as close to them as you can and help them out as much as you can. I'm a strong believer in that and that's why I try to do that for everyone I know that has the virus.
Marsha P. Johnson /
Aids
Ashamed
Believer
Strong
Stand
Why
Everyone
Anybody
Try
Close
Help
Virus
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