This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's all there--all throughhistory we've been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all our creative contributions to this earth. And until we do that, and until we organise ourselves block by neighborhood by city by state into a united visible community that fights back, we're doomed.

The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.

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

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.