#hiv

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system. ↗

— Phil Berger

#chronic #controllable #disease #even #fun

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read. ↗

— Marc Wallice

#because #down #everybody #going #head

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#bone #both #by the time #first #fort

The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#derived #french #horse #word

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. ↗

— Jeremiah Wright

#against #color #genocide #government #hiv

Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. “Oh my God, what is THAT?” I used my thumb and middle finger to flick the multicolored pom-pom on top of my head. “In my language, we call it a HAT. It keeps my ears warm.” “Oh my God,” Sam said again, and closed the distance between us. He cupped my face in his hands and studied me. “It’s horribly cute.” He kissed me, looked at the hat, and then he kissed me again. I vowed never to lose the pom-pom hat. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#funny #love #shiver-maggie-stiefvater-space #funny

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it. ↗

— Princess Diana

#does #give #hands #heaven #hiv

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions. ↗

— Serge Lang

#did #eliminate #essentially #hiv #screening

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative. ↗

— Serge Lang

#exist #hiv #negative #thousands #who

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#always #archives #asking #everyone #get