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America Quotes
America as pride, worry, and unfinished mission.
This collection holds contrasting feelings about the country: pride in being both African American and American, and a more anxious sense that the America someone loves is slipping away. For a wider view of national pride, see Country quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beyond the U.S. and E.U., Britain should deepen ties with the Commonwealth and the rising powers of Asia and Latin America - calibrated to our national interest in promoting the global goods of free trade, democracy, and basic human rights.
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is a reward that humbles me: the fact that immigrants coming to America, much like I did, can come into a Forever 21 and know that all of this was started by a simple Korean immigrant with a dream.
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- Nov 07, 2020
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began 'All Our Names,' I did so wanting to create parallel narratives between Africa in the nineteen-seventies and America during that same period.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did go to Beijing, with a two-year assignment. I stayed four years. And those four years were the most formative four years in my life. What I learned was more than I would have learned in 10 years in America or Europe, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saks is one of the temples of good-quality products in America. The Saks shop in New York, for me, is the most interesting department store in America.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've got some wonderful memories of the 2011 Copa America. It was a very special tournament.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike the Contract with America, which was created by Washington pollsters and insiders, Families First was developed from the grassroots up. Congressional Democrats from across the country spent months meeting with people back home, asking them what issues were important to them, and what Congress could do to make their lives a little easier.
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- Nov 07, 2020