Quotes About Self-awareness

I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.

Sometimes I walk down the street and hear people whisper 'that's Tricky' and I look back, and I see them looking back, then that affects everything I do - the way I walk the way I talk. It stops you being real.

Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'

I'm light-skinned. I'm mixed with black and white.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

People didn't seem able to consider that maybe both were true. OK, I was born to white parents, but maybe I had an authentic black identity.

I'm not a monster; I'm a white rabbit.

I'm a white girl and not a white girl, identified by other people as black and not black for as long as I can remember - which, in mixed-people speak, means biracial.

I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist.

I can't prevent myself of being funny.

I think the way you prevent your man from cheating on you is to just have a good understanding about who he is first. If you know that the guy you're with is a player and he's already kind of living the life, you know what you're getting yourself into. You have to be real with yourself.

It is insufficient to say that my experience as a bully haunts me. Rather, my experience as a bully has been fundamental to the creation of my conscience, because it is what prevents me from making the basic human claim that I am a good person.

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

One may be humble out of pride.

In true, narcissistic fashion, when my father was diagnosed as a narcissist, he called us all up individually to tell us, and he did it with true pride.

Oh Lord... I don't really do pride.

Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

I pride myself on being tragically uncool.

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

Money isn't that important to me. My needs are primarily artistic. Mainly I'm interested in my own peace of mind, in knowing who I am and what I am.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

I only ever became conscious of how hairy I was when I got to Year Six, the last year of primary school.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.