Favorite Quotes

My Favorite Quotes

...One man can make a difference, Michael...
-- Wilton Knight
(from the TV show "Knight Rider")

Once you figure out who you are, you never want to be anyone else.
-- me

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde

It's amazing to me, that people think gays' and lesbians' not wanting to lose their jobs because of who they are is "special treatment." Not wanting to walk down the street in fear that someone will jump out of a pickup with a baseball bat is "special treatment." Being able to live with the one that you love is "special treatment." No one is talking about quotas or affirmative action. We are talking about the Constitution. That's all. -- Dan Mixner activist and author of "Stranger Among Friends"

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
-- Harvey Fierstein, 1992

Eat, Drink and be Mary for tomorrow we may all die.
-- Klingon Transvestite

Homosexuality must be genetic. I'd be crazy to "choose" to be gay, and I'm not crazy.
-me

You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
- Ultra-Conservative Christians
(just kidding - The Borg from ST:TNG)

I yam what I yam.
-Popeye

I'm going to be myself. If anyone's opinion of me
changes, then I'm not the one with the problem.
-me

I'm sorry I never had a homosexual relationship, because I know there must be
many joys and pleasures and degrees of closeness in those relationships.
-- Gene Roddenberry, quoted in the
Last Conversation by Yvonne Fern

Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear.
Refuse to hand it down. The legacy stops HERE!
-- from Silent Legacy by Melissa Etheridge

I get knocked down, but I get back up again. Your never going to keep me down.
-- Chumbawamba (from the album "Tubthumper")

Respect the elders ... Teach the young ... Cooperate with the pack
Play when you can ... Hunt when you must ... Rest in between
Share your affections ... Voice your feelings ... Leave your mark
-- WOLF CREDO

..for the strength of the Pack is the Wolf and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack...
-- Rudyard Kipling

We will be known by the tracks we leave behind....
-- Dakota proverb

This is my house, if you don't like it, get the @$%* out!
-Eddie Murphy

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to
shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.
- Harry S. Truman

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
-- ??

Show me someone that says he's "normal" and I'll show you someone who is delusional.
-- me

If space and time are curved, how can there be straight people?
-- ??

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he
takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.
- Eric Hoffer

We gotta make moments fabulous. Because no sooner is a moment noticed
than it is gone, child. And a life ain't something to be avoided.
-- "Noxeema Jackson" (Wesley Snipes -- To Wong Fu..)

Your Mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!
Now, go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
-- Monty Python

Most times, the only gay or lesbian face people know of is who they see in the pride parade.
To judge us on that would be like judging heterosexuals after watching Mardi Gras."
-- Candace Gingrich, House Speaker Newt Gingrich's lesbian sister

The thing which prompts you to sit down and write must be something which haunts you.
-- Janet Frame, in In the Same Room

"Many speakers at a city commission meeting described homosexuality as a chosen behavior. What an amazing notion this is: A high-school student -- that is, a person coming of sexual age -- decides to be a homosexual? He (let's say, for the sake of ease) knows it's a straight world. He feels under intense pressure -- as all high-school students do -- to fit in. He knows homosexuals are the object of widespread ridicule and contempt. He knows many people don't even understand how a male can have the feelings he's having, and his parents are likely to be appalled, heartbroken or both if they find out. He knows being a homosexual can only make his life more difficult and -- in the way of teen-agers -- he probably exaggerates how much more difficult. And he decides to be a homosexual? On the exact contrary, some students of adolescent psychology believe that if you could ask teen-agers who have committed suicide what the problem was, you would find homosexual impulses as the most common. That guess certainly rings a lot truer than the notion that people are simply choosing homosexuality."
-- Hap Cawood, editorial pages editor of the Dayton Daily News.

Fuck you and fuck your father.
-- Actor/Writer Harvey Fierstein to Michael Reagan during the
taping of the May 20, 1997 episode of "Politically Incorrect" with
Bill Maher when the topic turned to Ronald Reagan's handling of AIDS.

The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for making love to one.
-- Former Air Force Sergeant Leonardo Matlovich (1943-1988)
who in 1975 set himself up as a test case to challenge the U. S.
military's policy of automatically discharging homosexuals.

Do you think homosexuals are revolting? You bet your sweet ass we are!
-- Leaflet invinting people to the founding meeting
of the Gay Liberation Front in New York City, 1969

Gays don't have legal rights. The only thing a queer couple can adopt is a highway.
-- Lesbian Comic Maggie Cassela

It's a lot easier being black than being gay. At least
when you're black, you don't have to tell your parents!
-- Judy Carter

Anyone can be gay - its no accomplishment - but only I can be me.
-- composer Ned Rorem

Most of our parents are straight. Heteros who hate us should quit having us.
-- Lesbian Comic Lynda Montgomerey

It is better to be hated for what one is than loved for what one is not.
-- Andre Gide (French Writer)

How can sleeping with a woman make you proud of
yourself if you know you'd rather be with a man?
-- Harvey Fierstien, in Torch Song Trilogy

You could move.
-- Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby") Responding to a
reader who, after ranting about a gay couple's moving
in across the street, asked, "How can we improve the
quality of the.....neighborhood?"

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