Quotes with african-american

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  • Barkhad Abdi When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
    Barkhad Abdi
    Somali–American actor and director (1985 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Martin Amis When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Byron Dorgan When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Bill Clinton When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bill Frist When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Abdallah II When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Erica Jong Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Baruj Benacerraf While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • Bart Gordon While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
    Bart Gordon
    American lawyer (1949 - )
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  • Ann Coulter While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Arnold Rothstein Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.
    Arnold Rothstein
    American racketeer, businessman and gambler (1882 - 1928)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
    Target Zero: A Life in Writing (2015)
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Candice Millard With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Bill Murray Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Erma Bombeck You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Barry Manilow You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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