I don't pull no punches, I'm not afraid to call out no names. You screw with the transgender community and the organization StreetTransgender Action … - Sylvia Rivera

the laws do not give us the right to go and get a job the way we feel comfortable. I do not want to go to work looking like a man when I know I am not a man. I have been this way since before I left home and I have been on my own since the age of ten.

it was a long night of riots. It was actually very exciting cuz I remember howling all through the streets, "The revolution is here!"

People were very angry for so long. How long can you live in the closet? I listen to my brothers and sisters who are older than I am and I listen to their stories. I would never have made it. They would have killed me. Somebody would have killed me. I could never have survived the lives that my brothers and sisters from the forties and fifties did. Because I have a mouth.