We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children o...
To change the world by bullets or ballots was a useless procedure. If the workers ever did get a majority of either, they would have the envy and greed in their hearts and would be chained by these as much as by the chains of the master class. And th...
What sticks with me now is that this man said he needed to get to a hospital. He probably needed to reach his destination more than anyone else on the bus, yet he lacked the capacity to ride without getting kicked off. Maybe he reached the hospital e...
In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.
The American dream is actually Cuban.
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive op...
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss.
We are all Dead, just not yet buried.
There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.
Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.
Let's make what Americans buy. Buy what Americans make. And sell it to the world.
There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that.
There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.
Strange how this war was making them all Americans.
We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent.
If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
