Quotes About Self-awareness

Being a Negro's a lie, anyway. Nobody sees the real you. Nobody knows who you are inside. You just judged on what you are on the outside whatever your color. Mulatto, colored, black, it don't matter. You just a Negro to the world.

A body can't prosper if a person don't know who they are. That makes you poor as a pea, not knowing who you are inside. That's worse than being anything in the world on the outside.

I come to enjoy them talks, for even though I'd gotten used to living a lie—being a girl—it come to me this way: Being a Negro's a lie, anyway. Nobody sees the real you. Nobody knows who you are inside. You just judged on what you are on the outside whatever your color. Mulatto, colored, black, it don't matter. You just a Negro to the world.

A body can't prosper if a person don't know who they are. That makes you poor as a pea, not knowing who you are inside. That's worse than being anything in the world on the outside.

how long could I go on before she'd find out who I was? She'd know it before long. Besides, how can somebody love you if you don't know who you is?

Am I black or white?" "You're a human being," she snapped. "Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!" "Will I be a black nobody or just a nobody?" "If you're a nobody," she said dryly, "it doesn't matter what color you are.

Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.

I want to know about my mom. And other stuff. I want to know the whole story, good or bad." "Me, too," said Gazzy. "I want to find my parents so I can tell'm what total scuzzes they are. Like, 'Hi, mom and dad, you're such scum!

Does anything on you work properly? Asked ter Borcht. Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony. Replied Iggy.

I knew my transformation was complete when Dr.Keyes asked, How are you feeling today, Tandy? and I responded I'm not

Yes, I sounded like a pathetic weenie. I prefer to think of it as showing my softer side.

My eyes flickered when I heard the Voice inside my head. (You mean you don't have one? You can get 'em at Target.)

Being a good leader is knowing when...to back off.

That's because I'm a better person, frankly. I am a freaking princess when it comes to other people's feelings.

You're your own worst enemy, Marta always said to me. You don't need anyone to torment you because you do it to yourself.

One good thing is that I've been following the priest's orders to meditate on how I've hurt people. It's helped me recognize that we can't help but make mistakes, even when our intentions are good.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all.

Ninety percent of people want the direction of their life to change, but they forget they're the ones driving the car. You have to turn the wheel.

We are the sum of our thoughts. What you choose to dwell on will dictate your emotions.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself

Yours, neither.

I may have been dressed as a falcon, but I'll tell you what. I felt like the biggest

I'm not a dumbass, but I am a prick.

That I'm nothing? That I'm not a person? That you can do anything you want to me and it's okay? You're so full of it! But you're wrong. I know that I do matter. I am important