Ryan Simmons

“The worst handicap you can have is a lack of belief in yourself!

Lani Deauville”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Life in the Land of "Is"...the amazing story of Lani Deauville, the world's longest living quadriplegic

“His entire life in India had become irrelevant and meant nothing. Not his own achievements, not his family's affluence, everything was beyond the curtain of mirrors with which America bounded itself. Nothing beyond mattered. Here he had to recreate himself, but the basic building block of his new persona was his colour.”
― Anurag Mathur, The Inscrutable Americans

“There was something different about the artists in the world. It almost seemed as if they felt things differently, deeper maybe. They saw the world in color, while many only saw the blacks and whites.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Fire Between High & Lo