#america

Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#appear #artists #big #challenge #companies

We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#believe #better #black #black america #make

I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#believe #better #black #black america #community

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#does #education #know #make #priority

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#bad #bad idea #beginning #first #formulation

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#between #clear #concerns #ever #gap

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#american dream #between #distance #dream #i

I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#america #believe #country #define #difference

Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#american #billion #commodity #depending #feed

The reality for us in America is that we will never get out of debt with more than 15 million people out of work. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#debt #get #million #more #never