Aids Quote by Rihanna

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather…

— Randy Shilts

My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was…

— Annie Lennox

In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were at high…

— Edwidge Danticat

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once,…

— Edmund White

It's very hard to argue against the message that we all have AIDS. It's not hard to make the case that we all have…

— Kenneth Cole

When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my…

— Magic Johnson

AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never…

— Dale Peck

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is…

— Marc Wallice

Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is…

— Pepa

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of…

— Susan Sontag

HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize as a…

— Kwame Dawes

Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness

— Nelson Mandela