Quotes About Awareness

I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder.

But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

It wasn't until later, for instance, that i learned that scalping was an old European custom.

It sometimes seems that people in the states are so accustomed to watching death on "Eyewitness News," watching people starve to death in Africa, being tortured to death in Latin America or shot down on Asian streets, that, somehow, for them, people across the ocean—people "up there" or "down there" or "over there"—are not real.

On the first day of the arts and crafts class i had nothing really prepared, so i asked everyone to draw themselves. When i looked at the drawings i felt faint. All of the students were Black, yet the drawings depicted a lot of blond-haired, blue-eyed little white children. I was horrified.

A poster of the massacre at My Lai, picturing women and children lying clumped together in a heap, their bodies riddled with bullets, hung on my wall as a daily reminder of the brutality in the world.

After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

Charlie was one of the women who worked the hardest to get better medical conditions. It's kind of ironic when i think about it now. A little more than a year later, i heard over the prison grapevine that Charlene had died from undiagnosed cancer of the uterus.

I knew I didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell was going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

Revolution is about change, and the first place the change begins is in yourself

he is so confused, he doesn't know his head from his feet.

Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world.

Sometimes he curls up on my pillow during the night and I don't know he's there until I yawn and my mouth closes on a whisker.

For me, little things matter.

Be careful, Hally." "Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it.

Aman cant spend his life with only one thought

Sometimes you didn't know the value of a moment unless it becomes a memory.

I think Destiny's purpose is merely to shock us at moments into a state of awareness; those moments are milestones in between which we have to find our own way.

We in this country seem to be in denial about mental illness' the King said in his closing arguments. He went on to say that this must change. 'This is the place and the time is now' he said. 'And it's going to take strength'.

how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have.

Your future self is watching you right now through your memories.

church planters need to be aware of their natural gifts as well as their spiritual ones.

If a person finds that he doesn't know himself very well, often he can rely on the help of another person who has known him and has been able to observe him over several years.

Kinaya?" "Yes, Dee?" "Don't go looking for darkness. It will find you soon enough.