Alabama Quote by David Alan Grier

I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.

— Dianne Reeves

My grandmother was not a great storyteller.

— Andrew Sean Greer

My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together…

— Elizabeth Warren

My parents would watch movies like 'Big' and 'Freaky Friday,' and I wanted to see that kind of story told from an African-American angle.…

— Marsai Martin

There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.

— Claudette Colvin

My grandmother on my mother's side lived to nearly 100 years old, and she had seen Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as a little…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.

— Carol Burnett

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was…

— Jesse L. Martin

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.

— Vincent Schiavelli

'Sesame Street' early on and then 'Little House on the Prairie' was a big deal in our house. I always identified with 'Little House'…

— John Cho

My parents' story is the story of many families immigrating to the United States today, and the story of so many who came before…

— Karine Jean-Pierre

My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were…

— Faye Wattleton