The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.

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.

When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

Life is too short to not have fun we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

A Rubik's cube is equal to a drag queen. It's really colorful, but I don't wanna do it.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?

It's not the size of the nose that matters, it's what's inside that counts.

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.