Take the things from America that speak to you, that excite you, that inspire you, and be the Americans we all want to know; then cook it up and sell it back to them for...

Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business.

Ifem, how is the weather in America?

I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was...

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can’t side with. I think that’s...

America has killed innocent people and hasn’t apologized.

We are part of the fabric of America, from U.S. senators to your schoolteacher to your local banker.

The world wants to like America.

America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There’s the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

And as if by magic – and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and that we, we now past Americans, were once the magical people of it,...

For the next two years I see a focus on North America and Denmark.

Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians’ jobs… When the government sees its people...

Six-Pack didn’t despise George W. Bush to the degree that Ketchum did, but she thought the president was a smirking twerp and a dumbed-down daddy’s boy, and she agreed with Ketchum’s assessment that Bush would...

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined...

America has its own agenda in dealing with different cases and Iraq has its own program, but the government is paying more attention to this issue and investigating it.

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

She looked at her note cards and took a breath. “Why I Love America, by Hayley McDonald’s. America is the greatest group of countries in the world because we have freedom. In countries like France,...

I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You’ve got to go through it.

I remembered suddenly that Aspen had always been this way. He sacrificed sleep for me, he risked getting caught out after curfew for me, he scrounged together pennies for me. Aspen’s generosity was harder to...

[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less “African” than actual Africans that calling ourselves ‘African American’ is not only illogical but almost disrespectful to African immigrants. Here are people who were born...

Death to America!

America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part...

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul’s call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

America runs on credit darling. Why do you worry, our credit will take care of this payment. It is not saving or cash in hand that matters. We do not need cash, we just need...

Everyone I have spoken with about working with the Russians in space exploration believes that the United States has learned a great deal from Russia and that Russia has learned a great deal from the...

The country and culture commonly known as “America” had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian;...

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of...

And if there’s any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there’s any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other...

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford… The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.

Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico’s in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on...

Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. They rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence.”He tells how the Persians were felled, how the Romans collapsed because...

What’s similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.

sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America.

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a “”crowned head,”” although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.A king, in times long, long gone by, Said...

[The US Open may be the biggest tennis tournament in America, but both Israeli women shrug it off as just another competition that does not require special preparation.] Every tournament I train the same, …...

America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth.

I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but...

Forget bringing the troops home from Iraq. We need to get the troops home from World War II. Can anybody tell me why, in 2009, we still have more than sixty thousand troops in Germany...

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that’s on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain’t got nothing to do with that. I’m glad...

I am proud and honored to be part of the America Supports You Freedom Walk to honor the victims of 9/11 and to support our men and women in uniform.