Quotes About Stigma

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.

More often than not, media coverage now mentions HIV-positive people in criminal contexts.

female soldiers n. males with female features During the war in the Persian Gulf, the Saudi government rejected the idea of female soldiers coming to their defense (women make up one-tenth of the U.S. forces), so it designated the women soldiers "males with female features.

Being a (male) Bowie fan meant that your schoolmates branded you a 'poof', too.

Everything changed after AIDS," Dr. Molnár had just explained to him. "From then on, blood was more dangerous than shit.

And who would choose to be gay? Who would choose to pit themselves against all odds and make life as difficult as possible if it were really a matter of choice or sexual "preference"? Not too many people I know.

All rich countries now employ legions of functionaries whose primary function is to make poor people feel bad about themselves.

It is not uncommon for black athletes, particularly those who are demonstrative, animated, and passionate, to be called out as selfish, mean, destructive, crazy, difficult, and otherwise not good teammates.

I quit smoking in December. I'm really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artist's life, and now people like Bloomberg have made animals out of smokers, and they think that if they stop smoking everyone will live forever.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it.

I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.

I'm the guy with the good attitude towards menstruation.

My father is schizophrenia, but he's good people.

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.