Quotes About Self-awareness

I always say I was a liberal, but I wasn't active in politics. I just assumed I was a liberal because I was black and I was a woman. And I know now that sounds really foolish, but I had different priorities.

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

I am a woman. I think I have the spirit, the intelligence, and - dare I say - the soul of a woman.

Everybody knows that I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world.

Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

I believe I was a codependent out of the womb and have been struggling to free myself from its vice-like grip for many, many years.

One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women!

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

As hard as it is, owning who you are and knowing what you want is the only sure path to affirmation... I want women to know they can get out of any situation if they return to their core source of strength: themselves.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.