Zach Anner Quotes

I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.

I've read horoscopes before and what they say. But I would actually love to not be what somebody writes down - I don't want to be described. I don't want you to be able to read something and say, "This is how Wayne is." I'd rather you meet me and decide. I'd rather be different, basically.

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

For someone like me, who prefers to keep their life as private as possible, it was disconcerting to have to define so much about myself. I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It’s not a tool to understand myself.

It's about whatever I want to make it about. It's my world.

I want to describe myself, not be described by others.

I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

I'm not going to tell people how to live their life and I surely wouldn't tell people my life is the way you should be living. People get to choose what they do want to do with their life and I appreciated that.

He may be a malevolent sorcerer, but Tiny Cooper is his own goddamned man, and if he wants to be a gigantic skipper, then that's his right as a huge American.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.

I’m not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don’t live on other people’s terms.

We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.

Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.

As a feminist, I'll wear whatever I want to.

Life is for my own to live my own way.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.