Jasmine Guy
Jasmine Guy
Jasmine Guy is an American actress, director, singer and dancer. She is best known for her starring role as Whitley Marion Gilbert–Wayne on The Cosby Show spinoff NBC comedy sitcom A Different World, in which she won four consecutive NAACP Image Awards from 1990 through 1993 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth10 March 1962
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model
The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same.
I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something
You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.
I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.
I spent years crying in my diary. But I finally stopped finding fault with myself. We're all different, yet the same.
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.
There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.
I would love to direct a movie, something I really like with a great cast. What a dream!
That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty
There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.
I've always known the greatness of black people.
I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.