LeVar Burton
LeVar Burton
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr., professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an American actor, presenter, director, and author. He is best known for his roles as the young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots, Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and as the host of the long-running PBS children's series Reading Rainbow. He has also directed a number of television episodes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth16 February 1957
CityLandstuhl, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future was really important to me growing up because it said when the future comes, there will be people like you who are vital and important to that mission of going out there and boldly exploring.
Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?
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.
It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.
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?
I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.
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.
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.
Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.
After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.
If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.