Craig Reucassel Quotes

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in a way that allows me to be a part of this reality, which I was excluded from before. Thanks to the eyeborg, I've made a career by combining music and art.

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!

iphone therefore I am.

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

We ask to be recognized as men.

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

Every person with a disability is an individual.

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

Disability is articulated as a struggle, an unnecessary burden that one must overcome to the soundtrack of a string crescendo. But disabled lives are multi-faceted - brimming with personality, pride, ambition, love, empathy, and wit.

It is no longer important for me to be seen in every frame.

I have understood by observing blind people that they are very confident. They don't see themselves as suffering from a disability.

I'm different. Like, I recognize that, and I need to make sure that I am as prepared, that I understand, that I've done everything I can, knowing that people are gonna wanna say, 'She doesn't belong.' I wanna prove to them I do.

I tell, therefore you are.

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?

I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!

Equality has always been extant but some of us just didn't know it.

No matter how cutting-edge Hollywood may seem, it is still delayed in how it views people: If producers do not perceive me as an Iranian girl, then I cannot play an Iranian girl. If you aren't perceived as a full black girl, then it makes it more difficult to play a black girl on TV.

They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?