Georgie Anne Geyer

The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.

The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are.

When somebody says to me today, 'You're my role model,' I say, 'No I'm not. You are your own role model, you inside.'

We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.