LeVar Burton Quotes

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?
LeVar Burton

Politics, Together, Concern

All literature is political.
LeVar Burton

Political, Literature

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.
LeVar Burton

Forward, Long, Matter

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
LeVar Burton

Put, Become, Everybody

I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.
LeVar Burton

Fly, Flag, Geek

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.
LeVar Burton

Children, Educate, Genuinely

I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.
LeVar Burton

Social, Media, News

I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.
LeVar Burton

Love, Future, Vision

I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.
LeVar Burton

Future, Learn, Excited

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.
LeVar Burton

Technology, Interested, Reader

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
LeVar Burton

Technology, Win, Quality

It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.
LeVar Burton

Government, Done, American

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
LeVar Burton

Truth, War, Children

There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
LeVar Burton

Star, Unless, Trek

This wired generation is kind of cool.
LeVar Burton

Cool, Generation, Wired

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
LeVar Burton

Books, Figure, Produce

We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.
LeVar Burton

Technology, Amazing, Sexy

And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.
LeVar Burton

Time, Computers, Home

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.
LeVar Burton

Proud, Fact, Few

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.
LeVar Burton

Today, True, Used

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
LeVar Burton

Book, Hard, Different

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
LeVar Burton

Life, Politics, Health

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.
LeVar Burton

Book, Young, Show

Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?
LeVar Burton

Give, Why, Sense

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: February 16, 1957

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