Larry Kramer Quotes

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• Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.
• You do not get more with honey than with vinegar.
• We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us,…
• I love being gay. I love gay people. I think we're better than other people. I really do. I think we're smarter and more talented…
• We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.
• It’s so wonderful being a gay person. I said that before. I’m going to say it again. I love being gay. And I love gay…
• Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist…
• By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
• I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and…
• 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…
• I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.
• I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker,…
• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
• Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
• Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very…
• AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts…
• Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars,…
• George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were…
• 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.…
• I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.'…

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