Avery Brooks Quotes

Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we are, can we disconnect that from history and the social context of our lives? The older I get, the more I'm convinced that we cannot, that we are social creatures.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.

I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.

I think of myself as a human being.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

I'm a human being and every human being has problems.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

The kinds of stories I want to be a part of telling are about delving into what it is to be a human being.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Any human being is this wonderful conglomeration of experiences and behaviors, if you like - some of them healthy, some of them not so healthy.

There was just this stage where I realised that people were listening to what I was saying and I could actually say something I believe in and, like... why wasn't I doing that? It's not because I think I have a responsibility as a pop star or whatever; it's because I think I have a responsibility as a human being.