And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.

If we can send a person to the moon, we can send someone with AIDS to the moon, and then someday we can send everybody with AIDS to the moon.

I didn't feel so different until maybe, like, around third grade. Kids started blaming me for my people killing Jesus.

As soon as a women gets to an age where she has opinions and she's vital and she's strong, she's systematically shamed into hiding under a rock.

Letting your freak flag fly is something, no matter who you are, that takes great bravery, straight up.

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.