Quotes About Awareness

I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose.

I can't even believe that in 2018, I still have to lay out why diversity in anything matters.

Point-blank, there is not enough diversity in media.

Hollywood needs more diversity.

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

Never ask a woman when she's due unless you know for a fact she's expecting.

I never want to get caught with not expecting something.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the picture. We feel like it's all well and good for other people to do better, but not at our expense, and it won't benefit us.

The more screenwriting you do, the more you become aware that particular scenes aren't going to end up in the movie because they're too expensive. That has perhaps changed the way I think about writing novels, actually, because now I write expensive scenes whenever I can.

My experience is listen, see, feel - and then think about what you change.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

There are two kinds of people in America today: those who have experienced a foreign cyber attack and know it, and those who have experienced a foreign cyber attack and don't know it.

There are things I've seen and experienced in this world - things they don't talk about in too many books.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

I'm always thinking about the bigger picture and always feeling so much for everybody else, and kind of experiencing the pain of the world, personally.

Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.

I don't have to explain anything to trans women. Trans women know exactly what's going on.

I was very conscious of the world being this very crazed place that demanded explanation. I didn't see a whole lot of people who looked like me doing it on television.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

I'm definitely sensitive to the idea of exploitation. You don't want to glamorize certain things.