Crystal Asige

“Liberation to me looks like independence. Not having to beg or to convince somebody of my worthiness... Just being able to wake up in the morning and be independent.”

“Art saves people. Art has the power to transform my sorrows into beauty and to turn my despair into hope.”

“It's one thing to go blind, it's another to go blind in a world steeped with discrimination and prejudices.”

“Leadership by justice is the best example in making a corruption-free country.”

“Please, please keep putting one foot in front of the other, however dark it might be. You were made for a time such as this on purpose and for purpose!”

“I think I came here with this mountain so that I can show others that it can be moved.”

“Inclusion must move from applause to action.”

“Inclusion means participation — in storytelling, in production, and in leadership.”

“Disability itself does not discriminate; it is merely an identity. It is people and systems that make disability seem dirty or pitiful.”

“Civil unrest is a result of societal truths that are addressed too late, or not at all.”