Roy Choi Quotes

It is difficult to overstate the importance of media as a tool to encourage civic engagement and participation, and the importance of a diverse and well-informed public.

I feel it's our responsibility to keep our ear tuned to public discourse. There's a lot of noise out there, and our responsibility is to pick up on the themes and issues that work their way through all of society.

If we can get people engaged in the world around them in any form, in any way, that's a positive thing, and hopefully we can get them to come to the news more.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

American democracy depends on the public's ability to remain accurately informed on our state of affairs.

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.

I'm always aware of various audiences, as a part of my training as a journalist and as part of my training as a citizen of Negroland.

What we need more than anything else is an informed populace. I believe people want to be informed.

Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

TV is such a great medium in what it can do in terms of enlightening an audience. We can really inspire and teach people about other people. That's a powerful tool, and that's something that the arts has always been capable of doing.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.

America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.