Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
I'd have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?
These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.
I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school.
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.
The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.
Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.
Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.
The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.
During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.
