Quotes About Awareness

I wasn't really fashion-conscious earlier.

You always think you're ready earlier than you are.

As a black man, you learn at an early age the police are not your friends.

I've always been a big champion of saying what we do today creates tomorrow. When you're young, you don't realise all of this stuff, and from an early age I was very conscious of what was going on in my environment.

There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.

Your ears are always on - you have no ear lids. They work even when you sleep.

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.

I just tell young people to find their way. Keep your eyes open. Keep your ears open and keep your heart open.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

We learn the most from listening, and I don't just mean with our ears.

If a culture doesn't allow you to laugh at the leaders or at things that your eyes and ears tell you are actually happening, that's not good.

It's a dangerous world, man. You've gotta keep your eyes and ears peeled and be on the alert all the time.

I do keep my eyes and ears open but I don't spend a lot of time looking at what other people are doing to see how I can fit in.

I don't believe in destiny. But what I do think is that if you listen with your ears, and look with your eyes, something that doesn't appear to be an opportunity can lead to one.

I'm aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have.

It is much easier to drive without having an accident.

Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?

I think it's important that people know what they are eating and especially to know what their children are eating.

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

We have a responsibility to do better as black people in this country. I don't care how white people look at you - I care that we have a one-trillion-dollar spending base, and if you want to see change, you have to start to focus on, economically, how can we change our communities.

I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.

You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.