Disabled Quotes

“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“Everything is temporary,
almost like a passing fase,
some of laughter
Some of pain.
What we would do,
If we had the chance to explore
What we had taken for
Granted the very day before,
Some would say I'm selfish,
To hold a little sadness in my eyes,
But they don't feel the sorrow
When I can't do,
all that helps me feel alive.
I can express my emotions,
but I can't run wild and free,
My mind and soul would handle it
but hell upon my hip, ankle and knees,
This disorder came about,
as a friendship said its last goodbyes,
Soooo this is what I got given for all the years I stood by?
I finally stand still to question it, life it is in fact?
What the fuck is the purpose of it all if you get stabbed in the back?
And after the anger fills the air, the regret takes it places,
I never wanted to be that girl,
Horrid, sad and faded...
So I took with a grain of salt,
my new found reality,
I am not of my pain,
the disability doesnt define me.
I find away to adjust,
also with the absence of my friend,
I trust the choices I make,
allow my heart to mend.
I pick up the pieces
I retrain my leg,
I find where I left off
And I start all over again,
You see what happens...
When a warrior gets tested;
They grow from the ashes
Powerful and invested.
So I thank all this heartache,
As I put it to a rest,
I move forward with my life
And I'll build a damn good nest.”
― Nikki Rowe

“The USA is a great place to be when you are healthy, it is a horrendous place to be when you become too sick to work.”
― Steven Magee

“You’re always dealing with a stereotype. There’s the superhuman trope and the vulnerable trope – the benefit scrounger, someone who takes, doesn’t offer anything to society because they’re so incapable. And if you’re trying to be the superhuman, you don’t want to look as if you’re leaning on anyone, because people will think, which one are you? It’s really hard to embody both. But the gap between the tropes is where we want to live.”
― Sophie L. Morgan

“My Pronoun is People
(Inclusivity Sonnet, 1266)

My pronoun is people,
I'm divergent, yet invincible.
I am straight, I am queer;
I am civilian, I am seer.
Spirit of life, I - am universal!

Call me disabled or differently able,
Call me collective or individual.
Fleshly forms I've got plenty,
All run by same love and liberty -
Culture supreme is inclusion.

Each heart is a shelter for another,
Each life is sanctuary for another.
Blasting all traditions of divide
into cinders with knowledge-dynamite,
we shall emerge as each other's keeper.

You ask, what am I - I say, I am human,
Better yet, I'm human's idea of a human.
I am but the human absolute -
morally unbending 'n divinely cute -
ever evolving testament to expansion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“My pronoun is people,
I'm divergent, yet invincible.
I am straight, I am queer;
I am civilian, I am seer.
Spirit of life, I - am universal!

Call me disabled or differently able,
Call me collective or individual.
Fleshly forms I've got plenty,
All run by same love and liberty -
Culture supreme is inclusion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Money helps, but being sick makes life hard.”
― Steven Magee

“The USA is really mean to sick people!”
― Steven Magee

“Would you like a government that denied you your earned disability benefits when you became too sick to work?”
― Steven Magee

“I have a lot of sympathy for disabled war veterans, as they are victims of a corrupt government.”
― Steven Magee

“The smartest people I know were disabled by mysterious sickness and through research and experimentation resumed normal lives.”
― Steven Magee

“it was hard not to imbibe the message that the realities of disability have to stay hidden, even when the disability is the subject.”
― Sophie L. Morgan

“You'll break the first time they put you in the sparring ring, and that's before the dragons sense that you're...' He shakes his head and looks away, his jaw clenching.

'I'm what?' My hackles rise. 'Go ahead and say it. When they sense I'm less than the others. Is that what you mean?'

'Damn it.' He rakes his hand over his close-cropped light-brown curls. 'Stop putting words in my mouth. You know what I mean. Even if you survive the threshing, there's no guarantee a dragon will bond you. As it was, last year we had thirty-four unbonded cadets who have just been sitting around, waiting to restart the year with this class to get a chance at bonding again, and they're all perfectly healthy-'

'Don't be an asshole.' My stomach falls. Just because he might be right doesn't meant I want to hear it... or want to be called unhealthy.

'I'm trying to keep you alive!”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I view America as a very different country to what I did when I first arrived. Today I view it as a country of extreme poverty.”
― Steven Magee

“Abled say - life is short.
Disabled say - death is far.

War, comes bringing death to many.
War, goes away leaving many wishing for death.”
― Enoble Asuquo, Sign of Humanity : Peace over war

“The government is toxic!”
― Steven Magee

“I know this one truth: some people, ignorant of the miracles love performs, might think I am disabled, trapped for a lifetime in a useless body over which I have so little control. But Mama knows, and now Papa knows, too: mermaids are real; they exist to bring love and laughter, happiness and hope into a world that has forgotten that miracles happen in the most magical ways. And I am a mermaid.”
― J A Croome, The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some before lifting it out to see what I had caught.”
― Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

“He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some time before lifting it out to see what I had caught.”
― Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

“Writing has become my escape, a place where I can confront and manage my anxiety and PTSD. It is my personal therapy session, always available and endlessly patient.”
― Niedria D. Kenny

“Keep the lights off. They live in the dark anyway.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny

“If I can get the people in Houston who are complaining about being without power in this heatwave after the hurricane to understand the unhoused argument about housing. Enjoy your roof.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny

“When you sit in your car long enough, you will find that this is what everyone is doing.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny

“There are only two kinds of people in the world: the disabled, and the yet-to-be-disabled.”
― Ed Roberts

“I have been watching the Democrats run the USA for four years. The police are still corrupt and incompetent, their ‘green’ energy policy is toxic, workplace health and safety enforcement through OSHA is a ‘ghost’, Boeing is a global embarrassment, millions of people are being denied their eligible disability benefits through feeble excuses, mental illness is a national crisis, cities have filled up with the homeless, housing is out of reach to the masses, rents have gone astronomical, their proxy wars have us on the edge of the next nuclear disaster, their unemployment numbers are fraudulent because they do not count the long term unemployed or the disabled, unemployment benefits are cut off to the long term unemployed, illegal immigration went crazy during their term, and so on. I will be using my 2024 USA vote for positive change and that will not be coming from another four years of the Democrats.”
― Steven Magee

“I knew I was disabled when everyday home activities became overwhelming!”
― Steven Magee

“When I could not stay on top of everyday activities was when I realized I was retired through ill health.”
― Steven Magee

“USA unemployment numbers are fraudulent because they do not count the long term unemployed or the disabled!”
― Steven Magee

“Artificial Intelligence could be
the greatest boon in accessibility,
yet AI enthusiasm is exhausted in
grotesque plagiarism and pomposity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“He admitted to me that he was beginning to feel invisible, especially in his wheelchair. He said people didn't take him seriously in that thing, said people wouldn't look him in the eyes.”
― Karie Fugett, Alive Day: A Memoir