#ground

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground. ↗

— Elton John

#better #did #ground #i #i think

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#black #ground #stimulate #takes #vote

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else? ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#background #bar #become #classical #day

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#grounded #keeps #life #me #normal

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#background #being #book #come #essentially

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#events #excuse #explain #grounds #indulge

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#because #coming #i #jazz #know

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#america #biggest #black #black and white #block

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#car #chicago #colors #detroit #gangster

Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences. ↗

— Star Jones

#barbara #brilliant #did #different #different backgrounds