Quotes About Awareness

Pick your fights like you pick your nose: with complete awareness of where you are.

But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it.

Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties, he said.

He stopped hooking up with other people once he realized the first thing he did was calculate whether or not he could outrun them.

it trains the kid in question to determine when people in the corner of his eye are talking about him and when they are not, a useful skill in later life when sorting out bona-fide persecution from perceived persecution, the this-is-actually-happening from the mere paranoid manifestation

Irkla ilgili önyarg?lar insan?n beynini çürütüyor.

Because to walk around with that in your mind and do nothing was to die.

The second thing Elwood noticed was the boy's eerie sense of self. The mess hall was loud with the rumble and roil of juvenile activity, but this boy bobbed in his own pocket of calm.

Her price fluctuated. When you are sold that many times, the world is teaching you to pay attention.

A free black walks different than a slave," he said. "White people recognize it immediately, even if they don't know it. Walks different, talks different, carries himself different. It's in the bones.

After a few hands, I realized he was talking about me. The dismissive gesture in my direction tipped me off. I hadn't been glared at with such hate by two people since couples therapy.

The white people do not see colored people, even in broad daylight, in the middle of town.

Step back and the world is a classroom if need be.

But in general the people who I think would be moved by art, moved to change legislation, don't read novels, don't read poems, and don't really care that someone's written a book about a place like Dozier.

He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.

Rumi: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.

We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.

The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth. The person we know at first, [she thinks] is not the one we know at last.

If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.

she wondered if she owned a faint idea of many things, and a strong idea of only a few. As if she had developed an immunity to depth. That she only, now, skimmed the surface.

The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.

We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what it really was, what it meant.

So many times people would come up to him after his lectures and say that they wished there were more like him. What do you mean? he would ask. Immediately they would realize what they had said and drop their heads. As if he didn't encounter people like himself every single day, at every single angle. As if he were the only sort of Palestinian they could stomach.