WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separates us from roaches

People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

Equity is the only acceptable goal

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.