Awareness Quotes

"In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist."

- Angela Davis

"The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward."

- Ijeoma Oluo

"You never know which experiences of life are going to be of value . . . You’ve got to leave yourself open to the hidden opportunities."

- Robin Roberts

"History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be."

- John Henrik Clarke

"I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."

- Morgan Freeman

"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."

- Thurgood Marshall

"A man without knowledge of himself and his heritage is like a tree without roots."

- Dick Gregory

"And whoever turns away from My remembrance – indeed, he will have a depressed life."

- Quran 20:124

"And when My servants ask you concerning Me, indeed I am near. I respond to the invocation of the supplicant when he calls upon Me."

- Quran

"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."

- Aesop

"Never confuse movement with action."

- Ernest Hemingway

"It is fortunate to be favored with praise and popularity. It is dire luck to be dependent on the feelings of your fellow man."

- The Havamal

"Your decisions reveal your priorities"

- Jeff van Gundy

"Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it."

- Lou Holtz

"External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now."

- Marcus Aurelius

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

- Seneca

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."

- Epictetus

"We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we speak."

- Zeno of Citium

"Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Willingly accept what’s outside your control."

- Ryan Holiday

"An open mind is prerequisite to an open heart."

- Robert Sapolsky

"The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people."

- Dian Fossey

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."

- Stephen Hawking

"Race is the child of racism, not the father."

"I feel that if we don't take seriously the ways in which racism is embedded in structures of institutions, if we assume that there must be an identifiable racist who is the perpetrator, then we won't ever succeed in eradicating racism."

"Turning a blind eye to our history has not saved us from its consequences."

"Yes, representation matters, but there is more to transformation than looking into a book the way you would look into a mirror."

"The discussion of representation is one that has been repeated over and over again, and the solution has always been that it’s up to us to support, promote, and create the images that we want to see."

"ALLAH knows everything."

"When love of this world enters the heart, the fear of the Hereafter exits from it."

"Nothing in this world is permanent."