Carmen Wurgel Quotations

I got a window just to peek into a world I never had access to.

I was a little naive thinking how fun it was going to be to live with another family, to learn about each other and support each other.

My prayer is that each of us look inside our own hearts. It takes a willingness to pause before we make an assumption. I think all this erupts because we don't wait -- we react. And the willingness to have empathy and just imagine what it would be like to be in someone else's skin -- that's my prayer.

There were some moments that were true but others that were designed a little or genetically modified. It cast a certain slant on reactions. I trusted the integrity of the show, and, overall, I still do, but I don't respect any manipulation that distorts reality. It's like taking a fresh orange and adding sweetener when the orange is already sweet enough.

By putting on another's skin, I have a sense of what it's like to be black.

I don't think we ever can understand anyone else's life completely, period. But a willingness to truly enter into the possibility of understanding it is amazing in itself. And I got a window, just a peek, into a world that I never had access to, and it was a privilege and it was life-changing, and I just appreciate that.