Quotes About Awareness

For me, there's a lot of erasure of bisexuality. I think a lot of people - especially in women - they tend to have really bad responses to it.

There's so many bits on a car these days it's hard to know where everything is. You have a bit of an idea but if you are behind someone and you suddenly change direction it's hard to know exactly where the car is.

College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.

I went to school in the 70s and the 80s, and the last thing I expected of my schools back then was that they would be the places in which I would be taught about black history.

Black History in 2019 and beyond is all about inclusivity.

I went to white schools and I didn't know anything about black history.

So often, blackness is seen in a negative light.

I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real.

The best thing #MeToo did was say women's experiences matter. You can't blame us for what happens to us anymore.

My heart bleeds, goes out for families with kids with autism.

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

I've been blind in my mind since the age of three.

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

Everyone is a bit nosey. It's like if you walk down the street and someone has their blinds open, you look in.

If I am a part of a huge setup where my role is blink and miss why would I do that?

I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.