Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

The South is like a foreign country to me!

— Richard LaGravenese

I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn't know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Playing in Italy was like being in a foreign country.

— Ian Rush

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

— Mark Haddon

As mayor I don't intend to be just a voice for Portland. I intend to be a voice for urban America.

— Ted Wheeler

When you go to urban America and you look at cities around America. People are moving back into the cities at record numbers. In…

— Marty Walsh

Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became…

— Michael Eric Dyson

It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from…

— Antoine Predock

My style probably makes me look like a foreign-return guy.

— Abhinav Shukla

In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.

— Lee Siegel

A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities…

— Matthew Desmond

New York seems very very foreign to me, like more foreign than almost anywhere in America, and almost anywhere in the world, I find…

— Robert Pattinson

We must leave our comfort zones and speak plainly about the challenges facing urban America with the residents of urban America.

— Eric Adams

“She holds up her cup of wine and starts singing a bunch of words not in English. It sounds like a foreign national anthem,…

— Katherine Stevens

Washington, D.C., has for too long ignored the reality that if we do not invest in infrastructure in urban America we are doing so…

— Ted Wheeler