21 Quotes & Sayings By Larry Kramer

Larry Kramer is the co-founder of ACT UP New York, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and Queer Nation. He is a founder of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, the first organization in New York to challenge the epidemic of AIDS through mass demonstrations. Mr. Kramer has also been active in many other organizations, including the Gay Activists Alliance, ACT UP New York, and Queer Nation Read more

He has been a board member of such organizations as Rock the Vote and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).

Of the 2, 639, 857 faggots in the New York...
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Of the 2, 639, 857 faggots in the New York city area, 2, 639, 857 think primarily with their cocks. You didn't know that the cock was a thinking organ? Well, by this time, you should know that it is. Larry Kramer
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Holy shit, " somebody muttered in the dark." A virgin, " sputtered another." I didn't know they still made them."" He just did. Larry Kramer
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It’s happened before. It’s all happened before. History is worth shit. Larry Kramer
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Have you listened to your heart? Larry Kramer
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Well, kid, I have seen the future and it shits. Larry Kramer
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Don’t lose that anger. Just have a little more patience and forgiveness. For yourself as well. Larry Kramer
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How needy man is. Larry Kramer
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One should be able to have the man one loves. Larry Kramer
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If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated. Larry Kramer
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All your life has been a journey to find an identity. Larry Kramer
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It’s the oldest story in the world. You want him back, don’t you? Larry Kramer
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The only safe place left is the dark. Larry Kramer
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For he knew there was a pit of sexuality out there and that he longed to throw himself into it. Larry Kramer
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And what has been so awful in your life that you have to write about it?” Mrs Lincoln, a definite gall bladder, persevered. Larry Kramer
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Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed. Larry Kramer
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The warring conflict in man between the intellect and the libido shall never be twinned. Larry Kramer
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When would insight, knowledge, hope, and beauty meld? Larry Kramer
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We’re all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way. Larry Kramer
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America. Larry Kramer
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one. Larry Kramer