Mira Nair Quotes

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

To achieve progress in the face of adversity, we need a genuine commitment to gaining a deeper understanding of humanity. I'd like to see a world with more leaders who are familiar with the depths of the views of those they deeply disagree with, so that they can understand the nuances of everyone they're representing.

I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.

I feel like the world would be a better place if more people experienced a little bit of someone else's experience.

We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

My trademark at CNN was really asking insightful questions and making sure people are understanding the connections in humanity, and I think that is the core of education.

Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'

I always concentrate on respecting human beings and their lives and the meaning within their lives, and I believe that is something people around the world can appreciate.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.