America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
And you know, we were talking about American identity, and where we've come from and where we are and where we're headed.… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
“The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
It [9/11 tragedy] has affected us on so many levels: economically, morally, spiritually, ethically. It's been all over the place. A new… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
America's grand strategy did not come from nowhere. It followed from our deeper conception of ourselves, and our American identity. Who are… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs” — Sherry Marie Gallagher Copy Share Image
My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
“The psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson devoted a chapter in his Pulitzer Prize—winning book, Childhood and Society, to his reflections on the American… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form.… — Ben Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“warfare would be waged west of the Mississippi as it had been earlier against the Abenakis, Cherokees, Shawnees, Muskogees, and even Christian… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain. — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
We are a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. That's what makes… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image