This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.

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.

No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?

Life is a do-it-yourself project.

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

You can have all the right reasons in the world. They don’t mean shit, my friend, if what you do causes harm.

her heart was the defendant, in the court waiting for the last decision and the judge was th mind.is it the end of love

Dont look for something that isn't there, because you're never going to find it

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger