Consciousness Quote by Ben Okri

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal…

— Ben Okri

“If you can not grasp the consciousness-altering experience that real mastery of these disciplines proposes, of what value is your participation?”

— Mark Twight

At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later…

— Timothy Leary

The science is my passion, the policy work my social duty. I think there's no other issue in the world that causes such suffering…

— Amanda Feilding

Between school, homework, tests, and play time with my friends, I have worked my butt off to create this space where black girls' stories…

— Marley Dias

“It was one thing to talk about being by yourself, doing important things, but quite another when the opportunity arose. The characters in the…

— Natalie Babbitt

My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell…

— Karyn Parsons

In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the…

— Nikki Grimes

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning…

— Richard Dawkins

There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of stuff that…

— Stephen King

I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager.

— Lauren Mayberry

Different stories that you read make you realize how grateful you are.

— Anonymous