Now people with HIV are no longer dying, but living many years - we are around longer to potentially affect others.

Decriminalizing bodies - this is a big and growing movement.

More often than not, media coverage now mentions HIV-positive people in criminal contexts.

The phenomenon of HIV criminalization is so much more massive than people understand.

In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering.

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.

There are laws that only apply to people with HIV - we're becoming a viral underclass.

Dare to dream, dare to love, and dare to live.

It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison.

When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

It’s good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving forward.

Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

You gotta be careful with message movies. People say "What do you want people to take away from it?" I always say its totally individual.

Islam in the Arab world coexists with Indonesian, Pakistani and Turkish Islam. There is limited solidarity, even within the Arab world.