Quotes About Self-awareness

False education, false standards, false environment had developed her into a woman who imagined she must feed her body on the milk and honey of indulgence.

To?i cei care gre?esc ?tiu din capul locului c? sunt pe cale s? fac? o gre?eal?, dar nu se pot ab?ine. Probabil c? surpriza e dat? doar de amploarea gre?elii. - RO (Trad. Ioana Petridean) Everyone who makes a mistake knows in advance that he's going to make a mistake, he simply can't stop himself. The surprise is perhaps a reaction to the size of the mistake, not the fact of its existence. - EN

A man who believes he's nothing more to learn about women is a damn fool.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside to see what it was.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn't nobody left except a real dark little girl with long hair standing by Eleanor. Dat's where Ah wuz's s'posed to be, but Ah couldn't recognize dat dark chile as me. So ah ast, 'where is me? Ah don't see me.' … 'Aw, aw! Ah'm colored!' Den dey all laughed real hard. But before Ah seen de picture Ah thought Ah wuz just like the rest.

I did not know then, as I know now, that people are prone to build a statue of the kind of person it pleases them to be. And few people want to be forced to ask themselves, What is there is no me like my statue? The thing to do is to grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

There's two things everybody got to find out for theyselves; they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living.

Put me down easy, Janie, Ah'm a cracked plate.

Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what it was. But mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods—come and gone with the sun.

Naw, Ah ain't no young gal no mo' but den Ah ain't no old woman neither. Ah reckon Ah looks mah age too. But Ah'm uh woman every inch of me, and Ah know it. Dat's uh whole lot more'n you kin say. You big-bellies round here and put out a lot of brag, but 'tain't nothin' to it but yo' big voice. Humph! Talkin' 'bout me lookin' old! When you pull down yo' britches, you look lak de change uh life.

Somebody got to think for women and chillun and chickens and cows. I god, they sho don't think none theirselves. Ah knows a few things, and womenfolks thinks sometimes too! Aw naw they don't. They just think they's thinkin'. When Ah see one thing Ah understands ten. You see ten things and don't understand one.

I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in the crowded street of life. That in itself need not be dangerous unless you have the open razors of personal vanity in your pants pocket. The passers-by don't hurt you, but if you go around like that, they make you hurt yourself.

Put simply, Hurston wrote well when she was comfortable, wrote poorly when she was not.

Ah betcha you wants some dressed up dude dat got to look at de sole of his shoe everytime he cross de street tuh see whether he got enough leather dere tuh make it across.

She must look on herself as the bell-cow, the other women were the gang.

You tries tuh be so much-knowin'. You got tuh learn how tuh speak when you spokin to, come when youse called. Ah ain't got tuh do but two things--stay black and die, Sister Berry snapped.

She had an inside and outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was.

Listen twice. Think Once. If a muthafucka shows you their flaw, believe 'em. That goes for family, too." Promise's

There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'