Quotes about Americans

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Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something t — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle
I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed. — Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen? — Ian Frazier, On the Rez
This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of — Paul Robeson
Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number — Stephen Fry
I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhap — Viet Thanh Nguyen
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. — Gore Vidal, Screening History
The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command thos — Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
Melanin is an incomparable beauty. From the lightest to the darkest skin tone, Black women and Black girls are exquisite — Stephanie Lahart
It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with — Benjamin Franklin, Remarks Concerning the Savages
Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that kitchen discover tha — Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
It began to strike me that the point of my education was a kind of discomfort, was the process that would not award me m — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded an — Yahtzee Croshaw
In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to — Josh Bazell, Wild Thing
That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you wa — Thomas Geoghegan, Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life
Om-nipotent, Om-nipresent, Om-niscient, Omall is wholly undivided, instructed the physicist, David Bohmthe enfolded and — Jarett Sabirsh, Love All-Knowing: An Epic Spiritual Poem
When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw some of those India — William Faulkner, Collected Stories