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 Copy Share Image
How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I… — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm still stuck in the Stonewall in 1968. I never left the Stonewall. — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
A drag queen is one that usually goes to a ball and that's the only time she gets dressed up. Transvestites live in drag.… — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
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… — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
Now they got two little nice statues in Chariot Park to remember the gay movement. How many people have died for these two little… — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of gay transvestites who have been in jail for no reason at all. — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
I got lost in the music in 1963 at Stonewall... No! No, it was Stonewall - it was 1967 that I got lost. In… — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
I know people think I'm a stupid little street queen out there begging for change cause there's nothing else she knows how to do. — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places. — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
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… — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
