Jasmine Guy famous quotes

04-08-2025

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

#Gay #Brave #Racist
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

#Love #Family #Desperate
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

#Love #Inspirational #Marriage
The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.
-- Jasmine Guy

#Kitchen #Important #May
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

#Country #Love Is #Community
I want word of mouth to be our biggest voice.
-- Jasmine Guy

#Voice #Mouths #Want
Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.
-- Jasmine Guy

#Violent #Non Violent
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

#Strong #People #Information
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

#Church #Approval #Nuclear Families
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

#Singers
We are a complex species to observe
-- Jasmine Guy

#Species
I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.
-- Jasmine Guy

#Song #Gay #Rights
You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.
-- Jasmine Guy

#Careful #Bigotry
There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.
-- Jasmine Guy

#Children #Believe #Glorious
I meet so many people, but I don't know anybody.
-- Jasmine Guy

#People
The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same.
-- Jasmine Guy

#People #Needs
That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty
-- Jasmine Guy

#Doors #Feel Good #Poverty
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

#Grateful #Gay #Men
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

#Men #Long #People
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

#Order #People #Needs
I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.
-- Jasmine Guy

#Believe #Practice #People
If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.
-- Jasmine Guy

#White #Racism #People
One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.
-- Jasmine Guy

#Lost Love #Pride #Gay
There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
-- Jasmine Guy

#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

#Years #Tvs #Way
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

#Creating #Community #Quality
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

#Moving #Thinking #Ideas
Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.
-- Jasmine Guy

#Insecurity #Racist #Height

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