Larry Kramer Quotes

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

The guys in New York don’t know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture.

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

We’re all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.

When would insight, knowledge, hope, and beauty meld?

The warring conflict in man between the intellect and the libido shall never be twinned.

Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.

And what has been so awful in your life that you have to write about it?” Mrs Lincoln, a definite gall bladder, persevered.

The only safe place left is the dark.

It’s the oldest story in the world. You want him back, don’t you?

All your life has been a journey to find an identity.

If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.

One should be able to have the man one loves.

How needy man is.

Don’t lose that anger. Just have a little more patience and forgiveness. For yourself as well.

Have you listened to your heart?

It’s happened before. It’s all happened before. History is worth shit.

Holy shit, " somebody muttered in the dark."A virgin, " sputtered another."I didn't know they still made them.""He just did.