Octavia St. Laurent quotes

“Gays have rights, lesbians have rights, men have rights, women have rights, even animals have rights. How many of us have to die before the community recognizes that we are not expendable?”
-- Octavia St. Laurent

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“I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.”
-- Octavia St. Laurent

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“I want to be somebody. I mean I AM somebody, I just want to be a RICH somebody”
-- Octavia St. Laurent

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“I wanna be somebody. I mean, I am somebody. I just wanna be a rich somebody.”
-- Octavia St. Laurent

Source : "Paris Is Burning". Documentary, September 13, 1990.

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“If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'”

“It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.”

“I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.”

“Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.”

“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”

“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”

“We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.”

“It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.