Quotes About Awareness

The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?

Trust your instinct. And if you can't tell what your instinct is telling you, learn how to peel back the noise in your life that is keeping you from hearing it.

To peel the curtain back, I don't know if I could do Curry Man the same way I did it in TNA and not be racially insensitive.

I don't want to see a kid get hurt trying to imitate me or trying to do something he or she has seen one of my peers do.

The disparity between the haves and have-nots was always blatantly obvious to me, and it's that exact gap that drove me to start writing and pick up a pen. I wanted to explain and understand the world around me because it was easy to see it was corrupted.

A lot of times losing a game is not taking care of the football, foolish penalties.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

I do not think, like people say, that I am a guru or I know everything.

At the end of the day, Black Lives Matter and we all know this and I get when people say all lives matter, I understand.

When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.

You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' but I want my music to be more of an awakening. I want it to make people to be aware of life; I don't want my music to be a distraction. I want to light a path.

No diss to any of my homies, but I pay very close attention to what people say about me.

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'

When people say that you kind of just get - you know, just feel like a little buzzed or dazed or had your bell rung - they consider that a concussion. I wouldn't. But if that is considered a concussion, I would say any football player at least records 50 to 100 in the course of a year.

Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

I don't fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person.

My home state of Kentucky has been especially hard hit. In 2015, more than 1,300 Kentuckians died after drug overdoses, many with opioids in their system. That's about four per day.