Around the world Quote by Bell Hooks

We're very privileged as Americans - it's easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems are the…

— Madonna Ciccone

Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially…

— Jeffrey Sachs

It felt to me like America was always wanting to resolve things too quickly, without thinking through what the costs and consequences would be…

— Robert Redford

In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction…

— Edwidge Danticat

We are learning in our global community that, yes, we are Americans but we are also citizens of a global community and we have…

— Rob Minkoff

We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of…

— Tom Freston

In today's world, the elites are growing even more comfortable with one another across national lines, yet at the same time, less comfortable with…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

— E. O. Wilson

It's all about, you know, continuing to get to know ourselves in a very diverse and complicated country that is America. It is a…

— Michelle Obama

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money…

— Randall Robinson

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when…

— Barack Obama

We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty, hunger, disease,…

— Harry Belafonte