Quotes about American literature

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Twas noontide of summer,And mid-time of night;And stars, in their orbits,Shone pale, thro' the lightOf the brighter, col — Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Poetry
There is nothing political about American literature. — Laura Bush
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and s — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirs — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de o — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
You have a color of your own- Dark chocolate,You have a culture your own- Hip pop,You have a revival of your own- Harlem — Luffina Lourduraj
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
The child came to a stop beside her mother and stared up at her face as if she had never seen it before. It was the face — Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
. . . what I told Malory happened next is that when he looked over at her then it was like he'd been waiting a hundred y — Stephen Graham Jones, Ledfeather
The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die. — Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.
Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to stan — Ben Marcus
Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United States there is more s — William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways
...that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was—I was far away f — Jack Kerouac
Our fiction is not merely in flight from the physical data of the actual world…it is, bewilderingly and embarrassingly, — Leslie Fielder
I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of reality once more, and sta — John Fante, Ask the Dust
Not long ago, after my last trip to Russia, I had a conversation with an American very eminent in the field of politics. — John Steinbeck, America and Americans
Harper: You, the one part ofthe real world I wasn't allergic to. — Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika
Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity. — Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika
I prayed. He was going home, and I wanted to pray. Look out for me, I said; look out each day and listen for me. And we — N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn