I love being gay. I love gay people. I think we're better than other people. I really do. I think we're smarter and more talented and more aware. I d…

- Larry Kramer

I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

- Larry Kramer

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

- Larry Kramer

Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.

- Larry Kramer

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.

- Larry Kramer

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

- Larry Kramer

The guys in New York don’t know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture.

- Larry Kramer

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 hat…

- Larry Kramer

We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is…

- Larry Kramer