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

-- Ryan White

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“Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.”
“Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way.”
“How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar. When once you hear the roses are in bloom, Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine; Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell- These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.”
“I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.”

Source : "Geri blossoms". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.
“To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.”
“In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.”
“All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.”
“There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.”

Source : Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.3, U of Minnesota Press

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