If you're living for today, if you're only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn't work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you're on your way.
I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven
Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.
In case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want to make something clear - I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.
No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.
I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.
In the beginning was the word, the word That from the solid bases of the light Abstracted all the letters of the void.
. . . sometimes, you have to break your own heart.
Perform with elan, brilliance and dash - at concert pitch.
Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control.