Charlayne Hunter-Gault Quotes

You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

I am an educator who thinks globally.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

I'm interested in internationalism. It's the new multiculturalism. How we deal with each other isn't sufficient any more. It's about time we examine how we interact with the rest of the world we live in.

American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.

Growing up biracial and speaking four languages - French, Chinese, Portuguese, and English - gave me a different lens. I was always very acutely aware of coming from a different perspective. I think that definitely contributed to what I chose to do with my life.

There are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more. Because Americans, it's easy to make us freak out. When the going gets rough, you have to get conservative. That's what's happened to America in the last eight years. I just try to point out that there's more going on than most people pay attention to.

I know somebody in every culture.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

I consider myself to be an international woman.

I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When I married Mahmood I became a daughter-in-law of Africa. That really changed my worldview. I can see it from so many perspectives.

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

You know, my view is that we have a big world out there.

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

What images do we see from the rest of the world? We see natural disasters, war, terror. We see refugees, and we see horrible diseases. Right? We see beautiful beaches, cute animals, beautiful nature, cultural rites and stuff. And then we're supposed to make the connection in our head and create a worldview out of this. And how is that possible?

The United States is a great, great country, but it's not the only country, and we can learn a great deal beyond our own shores.