Un American Quotes
The Frankfurt Galaxy( The NFL Europe team) always had tremendous success, at that time there were 2,000 American football clubs in Europe playing the game from juniors through to adults.
I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old and playing organ or drums in front of thousands or hundreds of people.
The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.
It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.
Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.
Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can't remember the name, but it wasn't even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.
I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.
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War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.
The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.
I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.
As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
I want to be the voice for those people who are going through the same thing, like little African American boys and girls getting bullied at school.
We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs, wages, and well-being come first.
I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.
Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.
The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it's called the American dream.
Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.
I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in American history.
I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.
I think Muslims in particular are facing similar obstacles African Americans did, historically.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.
Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization.
A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.