Quotes About Awareness

She knew things that nobody had ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether.

She knew because she looked.

Death had found them watching, trying to see beyond seeing.

Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now.

Somebody got to think for women and chillun and chickens and cows. I god, they sho don't think none theirselves. Ah knows a few things, and womenfolks thinks sometimes too! Aw naw they don't. They just think they's thinkin'. When Ah see one thing Ah understands ten. You see ten things and don't understand one.

I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in the crowded street of life. That in itself need not be dangerous unless you have the open razors of personal vanity in your pants pocket. The passers-by don't hurt you, but if you go around like that, they make you hurt yourself.

wasn't ready to think of colored people in

It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh.

Now, Pheoby, don't feel too mean wid de rest of 'em 'cause dey's parched up from not knowin' things.

We Negroes in Eatonville know a number of things that the hustling, bustling white man never dreams of. He is a materialist with little care for overtones.

Everytime Ah see uh patch uh roses uh somethin' over sportin' they selves makin' out they pretty, Ah tell 'em 'Ah want yuh tuh see mah Janie sometime.' You must let de flowers see yuh sometimes, heah, Janie?

in de woods." "It is a whole heap littler than Ah thought." Janie admitted her

They seemed to be staring at the dark but their eyes were watching God.

I do not always feel colored. Even now I often achieve the unconscious Zora of Eatonville before the Hegira. I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background. For instance at Barnard. Beside the waters of the Hudson I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again.

So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn't know Ah wuzn't white till Ah was round six years old.

suggestions

Listen twice. Think Once. If a muthafucka shows you their flaw, believe 'em. That goes for family, too." Promise's

Many people aren't aware of the teachings of Elijah Muhammad who taught some of our most significant conscious, black thinkers of our times. "He

Yeah, a real nigga studies his woman. I

I don't think I know everything because I don't watch much news from abroad.

People have asked me, 'Do you consider yourself a trailblazer?' Absolutely not. And the reason I say this is, I am aware of the women who came before me.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.