Quotes About AIDS

I went on French television for 20 minutes. It was very embarrassing to have to say, 'I'm not dead. I'm well. I'm not ill, and I don't have AIDS.' I hated doing it, because it was so insulting to those who really did have AIDS.

I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

he can't reveal he has AIDS in his village, or he would be ostracized and lose his job as a mechanic.

I am a fan of actor Richard Gere. When he came to Hyderabad for an AIDS awareness programme, I went up and shook hands with him.

HIV's never been proven to cause AIDS. HIV ain't ever killed anybody.

I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.

If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs-free future in the U.K.

The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.

Reality is an AIDS-riddled whore.

Isn't reality an insatiable AIDS-riddled whore?

I think of Beltrán Morales, I think of Rodrigo Lira, I think of Mario Santiago, I think of Reinaldo Arenas. I think of the poets who died under torture, who died of AIDS, or overdosed, all those who believed in a Latin American paradise and died in a Latin American hell.

Then, however, comes 'the work of forgiveness, which is apparently necessary if one is to heal. Many young people who have AIDS or are drug-addicted die in the wake of their effort to forgive so much. What they do not realize is that they are trying to keep the repression of their childhood intact.

Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century.

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.