Quotes About Open-mindedness

No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.

I'm not saying that hip-hop needs gay rappers or anything, but they need to stop being so close-minded because that will just cause the genre to fail. Look at pop. Pop doesn't discriminate against people. Look at Lady Gaga, y'know what I mean?

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

As actors, our job is to step into other people's shoes, So our capacity for compassion is like, next level, and that's why it's rare that you find a non-liberal actor.

I have rarely met a musical I haven't liked.

My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also old R&B and Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin. But, you know, I had rock phases and liked more modern R&B acts. I've always listened to all kinds of music, and I like all kinds of music.

A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.

If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating.

I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

I don't need every book to have female creators, I don't care if there are books that appeal mostly to guy readers. I don't care if some books have cheesecake. I am fine with all of that. It's the not allowing anything else that makes me furious.

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

I think that young readers have very strong stomachs.

For a lot of readers these days, a book is something you have to agree or disagree with. But you can't agree with a novel. For my generation, it was assumed that a book is a dramatic thing, that the eye of the book is not telling you what to think.

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

My mother was a part of a reading group, but they would never come near science fiction because they think it's not for them.

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

I'm curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.

A lot of people judge others too quickly without actually knowing the full facts or the actual real person.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

I start writing with an open mind without thinking about genre and realise, only after writing, that it falls under many genres.