Awareness Quote by Ruben Papian

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

— Amy Tan

To speak about yourself, you must first be able to assemble a sense of origin. For descendants of slaves, this has proved one of…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

“If we are not prepared to think for ourselves, and to make the effort to learn how to do this well, we will always…

— Jonathan Lavery William Hughes Katheryn Doran

There was a thrust to raise the consciousness of the people and we argued that in order to free ourselves we must be ourselves,…

— Maulana Karenga

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

— Tilda Swinton

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

— Deepak Chopra

It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.

— Neri Oxman

“Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by,…

— Zadie Smith

“...we have to be aware of the power and importance of organizing not just around identity, but the materiality of daily life, which still,…

— Manning Marable

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

— Seneca the Younger

Awareness of the self is more acutely at the heart of things than it has ever been before. On the foundation of self-awareness alone…

— Vivian Gornick