Kenya Barris Quotes

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

Ben Affleck exec-produced a documentary for HBO called 'Reporter' about my 2007 win-a-trip journey. I take the trip each year partly to encourage young people to think about global humanitarian issues: I think blogs by a student may be more compelling for that audience than my own work.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?'

There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.

You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

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.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.

The great work which is to be done is to change public opinion.

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring.

I believe everybody can make a change in the world.

My presence is to instigate and incite the people for any change they want, and for not having a change that they don't wish to do.

It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

I need to get a tiny bit more 'woke.'