Quotes with african-american

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  • Billy Joel Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the best American higher criticism.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Edith Wharton How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Maya Angelou How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Samuel Johnson I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ajay Naidu I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard and got in.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Barack Obama I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
    At a NATO summit in Strasbourg on April 4 2009
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Byron Dorgan I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • John McCain I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Charles Dickens I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Susan Sontag I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Adrian Lyne I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Henry James I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Andrew Young I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Arthur Miller I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Noam Chomsky I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

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    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Chatwin I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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