Anil Ravipudi Quotes

They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.

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

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

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.

I work a lot with blind people in my spare time outside of Unilever, and I count my blessings every day.

I have immense respect for anyone with a physical deformity and the courage and confidence it takes just to go out in the world.

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

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.

I don't want anyone to feel they can't achieve their ambitions if they are dyslexic.

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

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

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

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

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

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.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.