Quotes About Awareness

I don't read the newspapers, to be quite honest with you.

It is very easy when you are in the hothouse of the newsroom to believe that everybody wants to know about this Important Story Of The Day, when actually, once you walk out the front door, it is people getting on with their lives.

We are so distracted and focused on what's next, we can fail to see what is actually in front of us.

I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.

To the next generation, your war is here; you don't have to find it.

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

I think one of the things that started to hinder Baldwin as an artist later on was that he became really aware of power, so he wanted it, too. But if you look at the work before that, before 'The Fire Next Time' put him on the cover of 'Time Magazine,' it was much more intimate and a much more internal conversation.

We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.

It's not a very nice thing to not have empathy. I would like to have empathy. In the past I haven't been very empathetic with other people.

I'm always aware of who my core audiences are and I serve that niche.

People may not like what I have to say - obviously, I get the sarcastic nickname of 'Siri,' because they say I know things.

I knew I was Yoruba and Nigerian for the first 9 years of my life. I did not become conscious of my color and all that came with it until I moved to the United States with my family.

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

I am awake a lot of nights.

For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.

We might take it for granted now, but back in the nineties, who was talking about mental health?

Going back to the films I made in the nineties, they might not have been the most thought-provoking movies, but there was always this conscious thing of knowing that it was fourteen-year-old surfers who were really into it, and so I've wanted to be responsible with that.

Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze. They don't see themselves anymore.

Ninety percent of the time, when I put on my headphones, I forget to turn on my music. Literally 10 minutes will go by before I realize that there's no music.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

Your mind is nirvana.

I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this world, or why I should vote for George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I don't have enough time.