6437 American Quotes for You to Enjoy

Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, but the dance speaks to everyone... Otherwise, it wouldn't work. Alvin Ailey

Work Culture Dance Country Heritage Otherwise Everyone Part American Which Roots Speaks Whole

Maybe to feel like an Afghan I needed to be born and raised in the States, and maybe I needed to live in Afghanistan for nearly a decade to feel like an American. Both worlds shaped me, but neither one of them completely correspond to the picture I have of myself. Aman Mojadidi

Myself Me Picture Live Worlds States Correspond Neither Born Both Both Worlds Shaped Feel Like Decade American Afghan Afghanistan Maybe Them Nearly Raised Needed

In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50 states joined in, but not surprisingly, the biggest events took place in the 11 southern states that made up the defeated Confederacy. Amanda Foreman

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For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812, but there are four distinct versions of it - the American, the British, the Canadian, and the Native American. Amanda Foreman

War Me People Think Distinct Out Only Pointed Like Got Mixed Been Versions Up Canadian American Flags May Native Native American Should Who Wars Four British

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience. Amanda Seales

I love Forever 21. A friend of mine introduced it to me when I was in New York. I was borrowing a dress and said, 'Where's that from?' and she said, 'Oh, it's Forever 21,' and I said, 'What, I've never heard of that!' and she said, 'Oh it's this American brand,' and I thought, 'Why doesn't England have that; why doesn't Europe have one?' Amber Le Bon

I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.' Amber Riley

Me Idol American American Idol

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state. Ambrose Bierce

Alien State His American Sovereign

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture. America Ferrera

Love Culture Hell Latin Proud Am Very American

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April. America Ferrera

I believe in the American Dream, because I've lived it. Ami Bera

Believe Dream Because American American Dream Lived

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression. Amir Butler

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We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society. Amiri Baraka

Society Impact Had Understand Malcolm American Should American Society Whole

I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat. Amitava Kumar

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We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that. Amity Shlaes

Reality People Perception Politician Politicians Believe Think Saving All Americans Tell Kind American Where Vicious Cycle Media

We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it was a much softer type of being disconcerted. Amor Towles

Softer Type Extreme Focused Citizens Russian Vast Vast Majority Study Majority Era American Being Repression Them Much Aspects

My parents - they tried to become American, they tried to become British, they tried to become Scandinavian - nobody wanted them, anywhere. Amos Oz

Parents Become Scandinavian Tried Nobody American Wanted Anywhere Them British

In 2007, I went straight from Tokyo to Iowa to join Hillary Clinton's traveling press. I felt like a foreigner there, too. I remember thinking, 'Americans are huge.' Amy Chozick

Remember Thinking Too Press Join Like Hillary Iowa Felt Foreigner Clinton Huge American Straight Tokyo Traveling

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don't see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens. Amy Chua

Best You World Nation Defined Immigrant Citizens See Over Opposite Lot Trying American Cannot China Chinese Engineers Brightest Pull

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story. Amy Chua

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love. Amy Grant

Love Birth Way Favorite Easy Record About Seemed Songs Combine Like Sing Couple Involves Also Make Real Get American Just Subtle Holiday Then Things Jesus

If Congress continues to sit on its hands, and the drug companies continue to stash cash in their stockings, Americans will be forever bound in the Jacob Marley-like chains of high prices. Amy Klobuchar

Will Sit Congress High Cash Prices Bound Drug Companies Continue Forever Stockings American Hands Jacob Companies Chains

I am endorsing Barack Obama because he is a new kind of leader: he speaks with a different voice; he brings a new perspective and inspires a real excitement from the American people. Amy Klobuchar

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I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create. Amy Sherald

People Tell Through American Stories American People Create Paint Paintings

There is this myth, that America is a melting pot, but what happens in assimilation is that we end up deliberately choosing the American things - hot dogs and apple pie - and ignoring the Chinese offerings. Amy Tan

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