My father joined the NAACP when he was 12, in the '50s. He was part of the organizing efforts that led to some of the first sit-ins in North Carolina.
I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States' initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.
I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.
My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
Trump promised an 'America First' foreign policy rooted in the national interest, not in nostalgia.
The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites.
My first role was an angel in the nursery nativity. I spotted my mum halfway through and shouted over someone else's lines to ask if she liked my costume. I've learnt not to do that now.
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
Acting has been my first passion, and turning a producer was a natural progression.
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.
Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.
After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.
My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
When I first had kids, I had a suitcase under my bed that I didn't even put away, and I was excited about going to all of these new places all of the time.
