Entertainers, athletes, and stars started giving me support.

Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

Trust yourself, and remember you are a miracle.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]

Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.

For 3 Million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person.

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

Detroit was really fun, FYI, in case anybody wants to go to Detroit. I love it. I did.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.