Jasmine Guy Quotes
"One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Time, Love, Gay, Pride)
"That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Extreme, Poverty)
"The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Love, Family, Friendship, Building, Community, Country)
"The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Kitchen, May)
"The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: People, Needs)
"The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Family, Church, Approval, State)
"There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Sexuality)
"We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Life)
"You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Bigotry)
"Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: People, Being, Information, Right, Sexuality, Tradition)
"Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Life)
"It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Community, Right)
"There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Change, Men, Work, People, Day, Fire, Gay)
"Anything that is non-violent is OK with me."
- Jasmine Guy
"An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Quality, Community)
"If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Family, Love, Friends)
"It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Time, Love, Discipline, Being, Honor, Job, Practice, Respect)
"If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: People, Mistrust, Racism)
"I want word of mouth to be our biggest voice."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Voice, Want, Word)
"I meet so many people, but I don't know anybody."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: People)
"I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something."
- Jasmine Guy
"I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Bigotry, Care, Gay)
"I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Life, People, Beliefs, Practice)
"I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Men, Women, People, Cruelty)
"I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Love, Rights, Gay, Lesbian, Public, Rest, Songs, Support)
"Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Bigotry, Insecurity, Judgment)
"As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Ideas, Radical, Thinking)
"People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Power, People, Control, Order)