Larry Kramer

"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating bodies."

"If we don't tell our story, it won't be told."

"Silence equals death - our inaction is killing us."

"We are not going to die secret deaths anymore. We are going to die screaming."

"Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come."

"Love is the most powerful weapon we have against hatred."

"Your silence will not protect you."

"We need to demand that our leaders tell us the truth."

"Art is the only way some of us can express what words cannot."

"History will judge us by what we did in this moment."

"Fear is what keeps us from becoming who we truly are."

"Every death diminishes us all until we understand why."

"The act of creation is always an act of rebellion against the status quo."

"We must learn from history or be condemned to repeat it."

"Passion without action is just fantasy."

"The personal is political, and the political is personal."

"We cannot live half-lives and expect full happiness."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."

"Words have power when we use them honestly."

"Community is what saves us when institutions fail."

"Writing is my way of fighting back against invisibility."

"We deserve better than the scraps society offers us."

"Change happens when we stop waiting for permission."

"Love requires us to be vulnerable and honest."

"The struggle is what gives our lives meaning."

"We are all responsible for creating the world we want."

"Art speaks the truth that politics cannot."

"Time is something we never have enough of until we use it wisely."