#america

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#cultural #cultural diversity #diversity #grappling #i

'Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#dancing #middle #middle america #people #seriously

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#america #born #call #came #grandmother

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then. ↗

— Pam Grier

#african american #american #black #concise #dark

There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age. ↗

— Gerald Griffin

#america #any #because #been #best

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture

That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff! ↗

— David Hackworth

#american #get #grunts #making #really

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#american music #beginning #changed #charles #his

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam. ↗

— David Hackworth

#against #american #american people #because #did

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie. ↗

— David Hackworth

#easy #modern #movie #script #war