"My deafness is my superpower."

“The deaf eye sees what is invisible to the hearing eye.”

“You can see the existence of these beautiful signed languages which are incredibly visual, and they require space, they require space to grow.”

““My first impression was that I had stumbled into the future, but as a linguist I was also instantly fascinated with Japanese and how it has a relationship with sign language. Kanji are usually concepts or ideas and then hiragana acts as a bridge for communication It’s the same with sign language: We use fingerspelling between our conceptual signs.”

“Italian language is not just sonore. It is also a visual one.”

“I myself regard the deaf people as superheroes, protectors of the visual language.”

“A proficient signer can see accents in any particular sign language, even between, say, the south or north of Italy. Any actor pretending to sign in a movie stands out as doing exactly that: pretending.”