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It is a plague that could ha... LARRY KRAMER Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a ... LARRY KRAMER By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am. LARRY KRAMER Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to reall... LARRY KRAMER The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as i... LARRY KRAMER Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let&... LARRY KRAMER There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But h... LARRY KRAMER I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fi... LARRY KRAMER Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death thr... LARRY KRAMER I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use t... LARRY KRAMER We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried... LARRY KRAMER Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mea... LARRY KRAMER The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denia... LARRY KRAMER Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier ... LARRY KRAMER I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could ... LARRY KRAMER AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - ... LARRY KRAMER I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first... LARRY KRAMER If the books are selling, the money will follow. LARRY KIRSHBAUM I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like t... LARRY KIRSHBAUM A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable... LARRY KIRSHBAUM I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they... LARRY KIRSHBAUM Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it ... LARRY KING