Addict Quote by Edwidge Danticat

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

— Serge Lang

When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected mostly young gay men - it was actually called…

— Seth Berkley

The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.

— Richard Holbrooke

We grew up in an era where there was a lot of fear of HIV. Everybody worried about it and everybody took precautions, and…

— Forrest Griffin

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived…

— Peter Lewis Allen

Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them…

— Wangari Maathai

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population…

— Annie Lennox

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 believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under a single…

— Eric S. Raymond

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because…

— Emma Thompson

I felt that in certain situations, a lot of people were ignoring the AIDS issue.

— Marky Ramone

AIDS was something that was put upon us [as haitians], and we were immediately identified with it. That is unfair. That is unjust. I…

— Edwidge Danticat