It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.
We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.
I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.
For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.
The American way is to not need help, but to help.
American politics is always an open competition.
Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.
Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe Liberty was a great life-throb. But in America Democracy was always something anti-life. The greatest democrats, like Abraham Lincoln, had always a sacrificial, self-murdering no...
Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America’s flaws and making the average American reader (and book club member) look closely at his or her most cherished social assumptions. Americans might not be eage...
A pearl is worthless as long as it is in its shell.
Live and learn, die and forget it all.
When the white man wins, it is a battle.
A good guitarist will play on one string.
None of us knows who we are.
Talk helps shape one's thoughts.
To be unable to read was the ultimate measure of wretchedness.
Work is part of school.
The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
