American Quotes

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.

The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe.

Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.

The stage was our school, our home, our life.

Never get caught acting.

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

What you get is a living, what you give is a life.

I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards.

There are no black people in Iraq, so how will they know who to shoot at?

Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.

I don't necessarily have friends who are forensic scientists, but I have tons of friends who are cops.

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.