“For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.”

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.

If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.

A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.

Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.

I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!

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.

The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.

I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.

Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.

You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?

The only true disability is a crushed spirit

There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.

Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won’t work.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

It’s good to put money back into communities.

In order to create a new era full of peace and hope, we will do our utmost to solve various issues facing the world together with the international community.

I am so confident in that idea that if love gets a chance, it will transform the community and the world into a more prosperous place, because we are capable of love.