Quotes About Awareness

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral. Live this day.

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

At screenings for 'Black in America,' I've heard people say, 'Well you know, I never thought you were black until you did Katrina, and then I thought you were black.'

We never see any journalism or documentaries on the oceans and what we're doing on this Earth and how it affects the oceans and how important they are. I'm intrigued by it. It's almost an untold story.

It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing.

I was loving being the champion, and I wasn't listening to my body. I almost felt like I was untouchable in a way - that I could just keep going and everything would be OK.

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.

Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.

It's not unusual for me to find that I'm the only female journalist of color in the front row during some of the briefings.

Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

You can't judge a book by its cover until you open up and read it. There are going be a million stories out there, true or not true. I say get to know me first before you judge me.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.