Quotes About Awareness

Going to Africa to highlight the plight of kids with AIDS and HIV made us realise just how lucky we are.

I think any time you're able to humanize the plight of the wrongfully incarcerated, then you're doing your job.

I've always had a big voice, but I'm very aware of when you need to belt or go all out like that - when it's necessary and plot driven - as opposed to just screaming to scream, which I hate.

My parents and I always look at movies and just think, 'What's missing?' from the plot to the people of color or diversity in general.

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

In the pocket, you do have some protections, but you get out of the pocket, and defenders' eyes get big. Sometimes you learn that the hard way.

I feel like as much as there's a little pocket of people who do know me, there's a whole bigger pocket that doesn't and I want them to know me and understand who I am for real before making pre-judgments.

I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of films out there made by people who are genuinely trying to make a change.

I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket automatically in search of it.

Obviously it happens very fast on the field during the game; if anything, it's more of a feel. You feel when the pocket is collapsing around you. You feel when someone is close to you. It is a split-second decision.

I kind of love walking around with something nobody else knows about in my back pocket.

I've got to have two hands on the ball when I'm leaving the pocket, when I'm moving in the pocket.

I don't want retired schoolteachers or any other good Americans to be duped by fraudulent organizations into giving money, thinking it is going to go to disabled vets, when in fact it's not at all. It's going in to pad the pockets of some scam artists. I want to stop this stuff.

In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

I was living in Britain and then America, but it wasn't until I returned to live in Ireland in the late '70s that I really became aware of Seamus Heaney. I discovered quickly that his poems are very accessible.

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.

It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

What's really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

The American public does not know poets exist.

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us.