I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.
This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.
America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.
It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.
I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.
Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.
It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.
In 'Angels in America,' I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.
Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky.
America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings.
I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.
