Affected Quote by Daphne Guinness

I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that...…

— Kelly Reichardt

I grew up in a different era. People were definitely afraid of HIV back then, but education also helped change the way we thought…

— Forrest Griffin

The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

— Fran Lebowitz

When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that…

— Morgan Fairchild

My first AIDS campaign was in 1985. There was this dark cloud, everybody was socially inspired - we hadn't seen social consciousness like that…

— Kenneth Cole

In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It…

— Leslie Jordan

I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was…

— Yusuf Hamied

In South Africa one in four women have AIDS. When you are there it is shocking. So many people are dying from the disease…

— Kristin Davis

AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard to be…

— Michael Stipe

I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's…

— John Cameron Mitchell

The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all…

— Fran Lebowitz

I was really aware, even while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my life.

— Daveed Diggs