Terry McMillan Quotes

When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

'Narnia' has opened my eyes to a lot of things. I feel lucky that I'm able to travel; I'm not stuck in my hometown, meeting the same kind of girls and saying hi to the same people, week after week. There are so many interesting, intelligent girls out there.

I think well-read people - the world is open to them.

Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

I'm from a neighborhood that isn't amazing - it's not the worst, either - and I was happy. But Atlanta is just one area of a country. There's a world out there I wanna touch.

The worst thing that can happen is if you're stuck within a bubble and you think that is what life is all about. It's great to see other people and hear from people of different ages and opinions.

I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way.

A lot of the attitude I used to have about being from New York when I was younger just disappeared when I started to the rest of the world.

Being at Stanford really opens your eyes to the world that's out there.

I have learned to create from a hybridized point of view. It's an asset - something rather liberating.