Quotes About Awareness

Society doesn't portray transsexual people in a very positive light.

I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.

There have been a lot of things where communities haven't been portrayed in a positive light, and even when we were doing 'Youngers' in Peckham, people were cautious about what we were filming.

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going to carry some of that way of thinking with you.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

I've been involved in the deaf community for years, and my friends in the community that are actors or performers get very frustrated when they see hearing people portraying a deaf role.

Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?'

We know about Portuguese football, we know the Portuguese culture.

Growing up biracial and speaking four languages - French, Chinese, Portuguese, and English - gave me a different lens. I was always very acutely aware of coming from a different perspective. I think that definitely contributed to what I chose to do with my life.

As a physician for over 30 years, I am well aware of the dangers infectious diseases pose.

Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

I know people fear me when they see me in their mirrors. It's a good position to be in because they know they need to defend to the limit.

Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.

I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.

In fact, the sense of positioning, anticipation, is something very natural. I always knew where the ball was going to drop.

You don't need to be fast if you're clever in your positioning, and that's exactly what Mark Noble is.

In a couple of games there have been players who have man-marked me, but that is down to me learning what I can do when those situations arise, getting in better positions.

I'm an advocate for women to become more aware of the different positions in the music industry.

My time as an MP has made me more aware of the power dynamics that exist in society: between men and women, between people of different backgrounds and ethnicities, between those in positions of power and those with very little of it.

You have to create a habit of finding the right positions and knowing where the ball's going to bounce to.

You want to learn from everyone, but I think one of the main guys I look up to is Thiago. We play different positions but his awareness on the field, his touches, everything about him is so calm.

If you have got pace and awareness of where you want the ball and where you want to go yourself, you are getting in positions behind defenders and that is what defenders want the least.

As a white person I can educate myself to see how we can try to bring positive change. I learned how John Lewis put his life on the line to fight for change, and he did that at a very difficult time.