Garcelle Beauvais Quotes

When my brothers and I were young, my mom, a Democrat, and my dad, a Republican, used to lead freewheeling discussions at our dinner table. The only rule was paying attention when others were talking, and no interrupting.

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

In the case of 'Everything I Never Told You,' my goal was to make the experiences of a family that had always felt marginalised feel accessible and understandable even to people who'd never been in that situation.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

I try to be respectful of how other people think, I try to listen to what they're saying.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.

My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take.

The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.

It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.

We can argue and we can disagree, but we don’t need to poke our fingers in each other’s eyes in order to get our points across.

Liberals can understand everything, but people who don’t understand them.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.