Tanqueray Quotes

“My worldview is this: At all times, people are doing one of two things. They're showing love. Or they're crying out for it.”
― Brandon Stanton, Tanqueray

“That's the problem with growing up in a white world. You think you can do anything that white people can do.”
― Brandon Stanton, Tanqueray

“I still dream about him almost every night. And I still sleep with a teddy bear that he gave me. He was the only one why ever knew me. It wasn't always good - especially toward the end. But when I was with him I felt like I had a place. When I came home at night, there was somebody who actually wanted me to be there. And you can't just let go of something like that. Especially when you'd never felt it before. And you've never felt it since. Carmine was the only one who ever loved Stephanie.”
― Brandon Stanton, Tanqueray

“Underneath all the laughs and the gags, it was always about one thing: survival. Tanqueray was a lot of fun. But Tanqueray was Stephanie. And Stephanie was a teenage runaway from Albany: doing what she needed to do, and being who she needed to be, to get what she needed to get.”
― Brandon Stanton, Tanqueray

“And I told him that when I’m all alone, sometimes I feel like I don’t even exist.”
― Stephanie Johnson, Tanqueray

“I don’t have many people to thank because most of this stuff I created by myself, and to be honest a lot of people fucked me. Men aren’t my friends when they find out I won’t sleep with them. And most women don’t like me.”
― Brandon Stanton, Tanqueray