Quotes of: Black-america Keyword

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?

Democracy in America

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.

Democracy in America

The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

It’s often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they’re going.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America.” -Elizabeth Bisland

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

There's nothing worse than the one that got away. It haunts you for weeks like a bad dream, eats away at your psyche like a termite on softened wood.

Garage Sale America

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night

Howl: Original Draft Facsimile

Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.

House of Sand and Fog

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.

Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America

Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.

Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics

If England had not used the services of privateers and pirates during its long struggle with Spain, there is some likelihood that people today in North America would be speaking Spanish rather than English.

Blackbeard the Pirate

President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.

Foster Friess

I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.

Gerry Beckley

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made se...

John Cusack