Quotes About Self-discovery

Stand up and walk out of your history

We've gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that's an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?

History is a means of access to ourselves.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself

Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home

Mind and body have taken the journey, but the real home place is your own heart. It is infinite and so wherever you go, you are always Home.

I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home.

You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can. I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.

Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home. While you look for trinkets The treasure house awaits you in your own being.

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

I think I'm a homebody. I don't talk to anyone. I sit at home, and no one asks me questions or I'm talking about goat noises.

Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.

I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself.