Sinead Burke Quotes

Every person with a disability is an individual.

I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it.

We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am.

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.

People with disabilities are capable and deserve the same opportunities as everyone else.

I don't think you can only have people with disability talking about the Paralympics. Clare Balding didn't need to be disabled to cover it.

If you got a disability or a handicap, that means you're limited to certain things. And I don't feel like I'm limited to nothing. I can do anything anybody else can do.

Disability should not be considered a hindrance to achieving one's goals.

I think it's important for people to see how much more people with Down syndrome can get out of life when given responsibilities.

Nobody gets a free pass in life, and that's awesomely true for a drag queen or anyone else in the LGBT community. But I like to say, 'Don't be bitter, get better.'

It's really important to remember that disability is diversity, and that disabled actors and disabilities are something that is hugely under-represented in film.

I love being called Baddest Female.

I've never been from a certain group. I've always reserved a space for myself where I'm unattached to any group, but the part of Judaism that I really take away, that means something to me, is the part about community.

I really am focused on making sure we're doing everything we can so every single person in our country... has the right to thrive... and live in a just and equitable society.

If you support diversity and think shows should give a portrayal of what America truly looks like, then performers with disabilities must be included in that equation...People have been very good at being politically correct.

One the reasons I talk about my story is I want other people who are in the circumstances I was in to understand they are just as good and as valuable as everyone else.