9 Quotes by Cleve Jones

We are survivors. We shall survive again and we shall be the strongest, most gentle people on this earth.

Society is going to have to deal with us not as nice little fairies who have hairdressing salons, but as people capable of violence. We’re not going to put up with Dan Whites anymore.

I was surviving, and that seemed quite a lot.

I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.

A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little.

Don’t hate for long; it isn’t worth it. It isn’t worth it!

I wasn’t an activist then. I would become one eventually, but at that time I did not yet see myself as an organizer or a leader, I saw myself as a foot soldier in the movement and as an active participant – not a bystander or observer – in a particular and extraordinary moment in history. I think that all of my friends felt some degree of obligation to at least show up, be counted, and stand with our brothers and sisters and to be as fierce and fabulous and free as possible.

To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for gay people to be stoned to death.

Some people are sore losers, maybe I’m a sore winner.