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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

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

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

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

Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each…

— Dale Peck

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word…

— Ellen Barkin

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

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

— Larry Kramer

My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.

— Kanye West

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

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

People still think of AIDS as a shame-based disease, it's a sexually transmitted disease, and you're either gay or you're a prostitute or an…

— Elton John