Quotes About Awareness

If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

He that cannot contract the sight of his mind, as well as disperse and dilate it, wanteth a great faculty.

If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.

It is a strange thing to behold, what gross errors and extreme absurdities many (especially of the greater sort) do commit, for want of a friend to tell them of them.

For when a man placeth his thoughts without himself, he goeth not his own way.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

A man who is always rushing into the street will become familiar with the street. One who is forever changing from subject to subject will not become painfully acquainted with any one, but he will know the outsides of them all, and the road from each to the other.

The most valuable result of many years is a nicely balanced mind instinctively heedful of various errors.

The worst judge, they say, is a deaf judge; the most dull Government is a free Government on matters its ruling classes will not hear.

I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap; I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.

I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.

When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.

Before I came out, there was no such thing as a black conciousness movement. Kids on the street didn't know who Malcom X or Martin Luther King was until rap let them know.

Rapid response is essential in the fight against hate.

When I was a kid, I don't think I even knew what being gay was, and now it's just part of our culture. It's changing so rapidly right now. It's great.

I had rapidly become aware there were problems with the Kalifa group.

I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.

You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

I don't think rappers have a responsibility, but for me, I gotta say something. I can't just look at injustice and keep quiet.

I always have a notebook with me, I eavesdrop; I write down what people say. It's very rare that one of those things will provoke a story, but I think that that kind of paying attention all the time, and keeping everything open, lets the stories come in. But where they come from is still a mystery to me.

Growing up, a black face on TV was really rare.

My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.