Phrase by 'Larry Kramer'

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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

Author: Larry Kramer - American Playwright
  Who , Very , Seriously , Taken


Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.

Author: Larry Kramer - American Playwright
  Life , You , Work , Pride


I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

Author: Larry Kramer - American Playwright
  People , Think , Beginning , Sick


Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.

Author: Larry Kramer - American Playwright
  People , Today , Gay , Leader


Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

Author: Larry Kramer - American Playwright
  Me , World , Man , Gay


By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

Author: Larry Kramer - American Playwright
  I Am , Nature , Person , Optimistic


Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.

Author: Larry Kramer - American Playwright
  People , Feel , Down , Hate


AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

Author: Larry Kramer - American Playwright
  Need , Beginning , Happen , AIDS


I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

Author: Larry Kramer - American Playwright
  You , Like , Feeling , Degree


I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

Author: Larry Kramer - American Playwright
  People , World , Power , Pride


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