Quotes About Awareness

Native Americans also insist that "squaw" is a derogatory term. Some believe it derives from a French corruption of an Iroquois epithet for vagina, analogous to "cunt" in English. Others believe it meant "bitch" in Algonquian dialects spoken in Virginia.

It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. -Josh Billings

Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures.

To end our segregated neighborhoods and towns requires a leap of the imagination: Americans have to understand that white racism is still a problem in the United States. This isn't always easy. Most white Americans do not see racism as a problem in their neighborhood. We need to know about sundown towns to know what to do about them.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out. "Conclusions are not always pleasant."42 Most of us automatically shy away from conflict

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out. "Conclusions are not always pleasant."42

Lack of knowledge is darker than night. ~ African Proverb

If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents. ~ African Proverb

The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.

In the weeks we'd been thrown together that summer, our lives had scarcely touched, but we had crossed to the other bank, where time stops and heaven reaches down to earth and gives us that ration of what is from birth divinely ours. We looked the other way. We spoke of everything but. But we've always known, and not saying anything now confirmed it all the more. We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.

I feel slow. I think slowly, I talk slowly, I react slowly. In the blur and rush of everything around me, I am more mindful. The mindfulness has grown quietly and surely, perhaps more a result of my slow, sparse environment in Kanglung than my own efforts. I can see how it would evaporate here without a consistent daily practice. I

We do not believe that most educators or schools or communities are hostile to the needs of gifted learners. Rather, most people are simply indifferent.

We can not hear or see everything, but a experience let us understanding it.

Not many of us realize that we truly only live one day at a time. So live today.

Bennett was grateful for every day he was given on this earth because he knew how fleeting that time could be.

Marcel Proust wrote in Time Regained: "An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase filled with perfumes, sounds, projects, and climates." Every hour my nose is filled with nature's fresh perfume. —DB

You might not know when it's wrong, but you sure know when it's right.

Worst of all, she realized, Zohrane was without fear, and fear is the braking system of intelligence.

It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

The unfortunate ones of the world were subjected to a more lingering torment, and the fortunate ones were merely condemned to watch it from a front seat, unwilling tricoteuses at an execution they were powerless to prevent. The least they could do was not to turn away their eyes; for with such a picture stamped upon the retina of their memory they would not be able to lie easy until they had done their best to ensure that it could never happen again.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

Know your own happiness.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.