Quotes about American culture

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People want to feel good, be entertained, eat salty shit, and cum twice a week, and provided they do they'll stay quiet. — Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 2: Come Join Us
A nation lives by its myths and heroes. Many societies have survived defeat and invasion, even political and economic co — E. Christian Kopff, The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition
The only crime is pride. — Sophocles
What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward ho — Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Home is what we know we ought to want but can't really take. America is not so much a home for anyone as a universal dre — Michael Wood, America in the Movies or Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind
A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs — Sherry Marie Gallagher, Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture
America — rather, the United States — seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligne — Edna Ferber, A Peculiar Treasure: Autobiography
That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said "On the Road." He smiled, said, "Tha — Sarah Vowell
It is easy to put down Frances Trollope as a Tory embittered by her American business failure. But her observations on A — Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
The races are like America's children. White people are the firstborn, so they were Dad's favorite. Black people are the — Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America
I love Las Vegas because it's the one city less classy than Los Angeles. — J. Richard Singleton
Los Angeles is a city made up of refugees from better cities. — J. Richard Singleton
American dream,a spouse,a brace of children,cuddly pets,coffee-table books,rusted skeleton keys,plastic cauliflower bags — Brian D'Ambrosio, Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through — Mark Galli
That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you sm — NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names
There's a liberal story that limited opportunities, and barriers, lead to employment problems and criminal records, but — Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
I was once in San Francisco, and I parked in the only available space, which happened to be on the other side of the str — Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
In America, the materio-economic conditions relate to a societal, multi-group existence in a way never before know in wo — Harold Cruse, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership
I, too, like yourself was a good party man: my party was that of the Church; I was ultramontane. Your party system is on — Henry Adams, Democracy: An American Novel
The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we — Tim Wise