I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.
I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in this lifetime than an African American man.
Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.
The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.
This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I'm not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!
We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices.... Government has to make those choices for people.
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.
Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.
When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
There are features that African Americans have that are similar! There are features that white people have that are similar! Features that Hispanic people have that are similar!
I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.
According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist.
And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.
So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.
