Quotes about Awareness
Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.
— Maya Angelou
I'm grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love — for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I'm grateful to know that it exists.
— Maya Angelou
In order to avoid this bitter end, we would all have to be born again, and born with the knowledge of alternatives. Even then?
— Maya Angelou
You do your best until you know better, then you do better.
— Maya Angelou
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
— Maya Angelou
Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.
— Maya Angelou
We are sa blind as we want to be
— Maya Angelou
under my eye, but not my thumb.
— Maya Angelou
We are only as blind as we want to be
— Maya Angelou
Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.
— Maya Angelou
Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.
— Maya Angelou
A lack of courage allows us to remain blinded to our own history and deaf to the cries of our past.
— Maya Angelou