Sylvia Rivera Quotes

#1. The bookseller could not imagine what might be more practical than a book,

Nina George

#2. [Flowy]'d undertaken this mainly because he'd known that going to public school, with girls, would sentence him to fatherhood by age sixteen, and he wanted to evade that pattern, one from which he himself had been born.

Jeff Hobbs

#3. I'm not in competition with nobody. I want to make good music for my fans who want it, who enjoy it, who learn something from it. And that's what it is.

Lupe Fiasco

#4. For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.' (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)

Margaret Bald

#5. The value of routine; trusting your swing.

Lorii Myers

#6. Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned,

Sylvia Rivera

#7. I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist ... I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!

Sylvia Rivera

#8. I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

Franz Grillparzer

#9. And I wouldn't take on such a big thing if I didn't think I could nail it.

Trish Stratus