Jasmine Guy Quotes
Sad Quotes by Jasmine Guy

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

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

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where
outside the door is extreme poverty.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

We are a complex species to observe.
- Jasmine Guy

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

Life is way better than TV.
I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.
- 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

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

Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.
- Jasmine Guy

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

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

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

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
- Jasmine Guy

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

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

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

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

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

I want word of mouth to be our biggest voice.
- Jasmine Guy

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

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.
- Jasmine Guy

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

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

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Most of us spend our lives as if
we have another one in the bank.
- Ben Irwin

Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
- Henry David Thoreau

Stupidity is also a gift of God,
but one mustn't misuse it.
- Pope John Paul II

The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony

I always like walking in the rain,
so no one can see me crying.
- Charlie Chaplin

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard

By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love.
- Anonymous

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde

Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein

It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates

A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.
- Jerome Blattner

In a separation it is the one
who is not really in love
who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung

Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil
to one who is striking at the root.
- Henry David Thoreau

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism.
To steal from many is research.
- Anonymous