Language Quote by Lou Ann Walker

“I had to learn I wasn’t deaf. I had to start speaking out.”

— Lou Ann Walker

“In complete silence you can’t hear a thing. Just ask a deaf person—but ask them with your fingers.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I’d never actually talked to a deaf person before but I’d been swimming and gotten water stuck in my ears lots of times, felt…

— Paul Neilan

“I was the only student she’d taught who’d actually known any deaf people. Most of the students in my courses were there because they’d…

— Lou Ann Walker

“Although her hearing was excellent, she had that gift of temporary deafness that is granted to so few.”

— Tom Holt

“One of the best things about being deaf is that you can't hear anyone talking smack about you.”

— Ashley Fiorek

“We are all born almost Deaf, Dumb and Blind; trial and error have, thus far, been our best teacher.”

— Balan Gothandaraman

“Being deaf is not a weakness or it shouldn’t be seen as one and that’s what I wanted to get across that day. It’s…

— Melyssa Winchester

“And it is hard, I imagine, for people who have not experienced this to understand the weight of that silence and how the absence…

— Daisy Hernandez

“In most of us there is a tiny voice we consult as part of our thought processes. Deaf people literally don’t hear themselves thinking.”

— Lou Ann Walker

Most of my students were not deaf.

— Lauren Ridloff

“I sent him a silent message with my body language, but he must be deaf—or, rather, blind.”

— Jarod Kintz