We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of their game now and how to play it.

We don't want sympathetic liberals, we want gays to represent gays... I represent the gay street people-the 14-year-old runaway from San Antonio. We have to make up for hundreds of years of persecution. We have to give hope to that poor runaway kid from San Antonio. They go to the bars because churches are hostile. They need hope! They need a piece of the pie!