A Quote by Kevin Sessums

Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him. — © Kevin Sessums
Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.
Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way.
[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.
[Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I was against you from the beginning."
I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I could do a piece on [Larry] Kramer as a pain in the ass, but I suppose you have too many of those, as it is.'" And Sarah's began something like, "When I read about America's angriest AIDS activist, I can't believe they are talking about my sweet Uncle Larry."
I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story.
I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
[Larry Kramer] even wrote this angry letter to the president of Yale, and in it he said what he said to us, that he was so disappointed in his straight friends because of AIDS and everything. He wrote the letter around March. And in it he wrote, "I usually go to the Trillins for Christmas, but I just couldn't do it this year."
Larry [Kramer] and I often disagree. There was the whole meshuggaas we went through about his donating his papers to Yale, and I disagreed with him on a number of things about that. You wanted a gay center.
We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends.
I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped.
There is that. I might have better luck telling him I’m in love with him. Jace thinks everyone’s in love with him anyway.” “But I,” said Clary, “actually am.
I love Larry Bird, but I don't agree with him. I love him and respect everything about him. I learned a long time ago, and I've made this statement: Coaches don't lose their expertise and ability to make the calls.
[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan's speech, which wasn't allowed.
I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.
I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.
Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.
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