It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.
I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.
The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
'American Idol' is the fast track to fame. I'm just lucky it worked out. I don't feel different. The way people react to me is different.
I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.
I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.
Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.
I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.
Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.
When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.
Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
