Marsha P. Johnson Quotes

Marsha P. Johnson

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : August 24, 1945

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

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

I may be crazy, but that don't make me wrong.

Marsha P. Johnson

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

Marsha P. Johnson

As long as gay people don't have their rights all across America, there's no reason for celebration.

Marsha P. Johnson

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

Darling, I want my gay rights now.

Marsha P. Johnson

I was no one, nobody from Nowheresville, until I became a drag queen.

Marsha P. Johnson

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

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

I'm still stuck in the Stonewall in 1968. I never left the Stonewall.

Marsha P. Johnson

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

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

Usually, I wear a short dress every day of the week.

Marsha P. Johnson

We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.

Marsha P. Johnson

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

I never come out of drag to go anywhere. Everywhere I go I get all dressed up.

Marsha P. Johnson

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

Gay sisters don't think too bad of transvestites. Gay brothers do.

Marsha P. Johnson

I think if transvestites don't stand up for themselves, nobody else is going to stand up for transvestites.

Marsha P. Johnson