The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Julius Eastman is the kind of American genius not enough people know about. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image