Deaf People Can Do Anything,

I'm Not Really Deaf; I Just Faked It To Win The Oscar Kidding.

The Hearing Aids Are Very Helpful For Speech Reading. Without The Hearing Aids, My Voice Becomes Very Loud, And I Cannot Control The Quality Of My Voice.

Every One Of Us Is Different In Some Way, But For Those Of Us Who Are More Different, We Have To Put More Effort Into Convincing The Less Different That We Can Do The Same Thing They Can, Just Differently.

Watch Me When People Say Deaf And Dumb, Or Deaf Mute, And I Give Them A Look Like You Might Get If You Called Denzel Washington The Wrong Name.

During A Visit To California, When A Friend Of My Grandmother's Told My Parents That I Must Be Deaf Because I Was Not Responding To Sounds, My Father Was Absolutely Convinced That I Was Simply Being Stubborn.