Quotes of: African-americans Keyword

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Wallace Stevens

Sad is one of those words that has given up its life for our country, it's been a martyr for the American dream, it's been neutralized, co-opted by our culture to suggest a tinge of discomfort that lasts the time it takes for this and then for that t...

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

All poor people ain't black/ and all black people ain't poor.

African-American

Mothers raise their daughters and let their sons grow up.

African-American

Whoever has a tail of straw should not hesitate near the fire.

Latin American

The Sniper must not be susceptible to emotions such as anxiety and remorse,

Crosshairs on the Kill Zone: American Combat Snipers, Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom

The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.

The Cycles of American History

God pity the poor novelist.

Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook

Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists

Guitar: An American Life

The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.

A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood

Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.

How to Be an American Housewife

People who seek the truth never stop looking for it

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.

Brit Hume

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

Sue Monk Kidd

I think what I learned in research is that as Americans, we're very distrustful of anger. We're not sure if we should repress it. The idea that anger is supposed to be controlled is American, and we try to keep it out of our homes.

Koren Zailckas

There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected...

Noam Chomsky

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

Charlton Heston

I am in everything that stands for justice and the natural rights of free men everywhere.I am American Amaranth

American Amaranth

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

The American Scholar; Self-Reliance. Compensation

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

The American Scholar; Self-Reliance. Compensation