Awareness Quotes

"During trial, the jury was forced to pick; is he wholesome or monstrous. But I never questioned that any of what they said about him was true. In fact I need you to know it was all true. The friendly guy who helps you move and assists senior citizens in the pool is the same guy who assaulted me. One person can be capable of both. Society often fails to wrap its head around the fact that these truths often coexist, they are not mutually exclusive. Bad qualities can hide inside a good person. That’s the terrifying part."

- Chanel Miller

"The irony of being a good person is that you understand a bad person very well."

- Pradip Bendkule

"My heritage and my culture and where I'm from mean the most to me, more than anything."

- Patty Mills

"I'm blessed to be where I am, but there are a lot of uncertainties in this life."

- Jrue Holiday

"You can't judge a book by its cover until you open up and read it. There are going be a million stories out there, true or not true. I say get to know me first before you judge me."

- Dion Waiters

"A lot of times we overlook some of our priorities."

- John Havlicek

"I've had my differences with the NBA in terms of cryptocurrency and contractual things."

- Spencer Dinwiddie

"I knew basketball was going to grow. But I never knew it would grow to the extent that it has."

- George Mikan

"I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older."

- Virginia Woolf

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."

- John F. Kennedy

"Infertility doesn’t need to be an all or nothing conversation."

- Dania Sanders

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why"

- Mark Twain

"When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you"

- Lolly Daskal

"If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

- John F. Kennedy

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, the other represents opportunity."

- John F. Kennedy

"Gender is who you are, and sexuality is who you want."

- C.N. Lester

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"

- Ernest J. Gaines

"You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights."

- Maya Angelou

"There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in."

- Chris Colfer

"Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start."

- Jason Collins

"We’re all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way."

- Larry Kramer

"The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.’"

- Brenda Howard

"AIDS is a plague – numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health – though no one in authority has the guts to call it one."

- Larry Kramer

"The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them, ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.’"

- Brenda Howard

"While as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible."

- Anderson Cooper

"How can people change their minds about us if they don’t know who we are?"

- Harvey Milk

"I’d never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn’t seem so strange."

- Cynthia Nixon

"Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight."

- Casey McQuiston

"Don’t expect everyone to understand your journey, especially if they’ve never had to walk your path."