Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.

Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.

The more we rely on our presuppositions, the less we will learn.

I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It's so much fun to be out in nature and who better to do that with than the person you're dating?

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.

The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.