Words matter. These are the best Deaf People Quotes from famous people such as Shoshannah Stern, John Scalzi, Nyle DiMarco, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Masur, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don’t have.
I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.
We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don’t realize that. They just assume that deaf people are very unfortunate, very disabled, but no.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
Policing of the disabled and how many deaf people get shot by cops is sort of insane. And it’s not talked about.
I’m really excited to educate the world about what deaf people can do.
I’ve seen the needless struggles that deaf children and deaf people face, and that gave me the impetus to write.
Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It’s hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect.
When I signed up for ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ I was nervous. If I threw everything off, there are 10-15 million people watching, and that would be a negative viewpoint of deaf people, and I didn’t want that.
I think we really do need deaf people out there writing their own shows.
There is research proving that deaf people have increased visual abilities.
I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.
I don’t know that hearing people have ever felt that experience of truly being left out. They have easy communication, while deaf people can’t join in. It takes more time to communicate with us.
I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I’ve also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven’t had contact with the deaf community.
Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.
I am truly humbled. Not only that I am going to be known as the final Top Model but as a final Top Model who is deaf! And that is an amazing tagline. This proves that deaf people can do anything and everything.
Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
