Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Obama said, 'Now let me be clear, issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.' No, he… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
A British director directed 'American Beauty,' an important film about American life, and it didn't matter. What only mattered was everyone's sensibility. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Immigration law doesn`t exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out. It exists to protect all aspects of American life, the work… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century. — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.” — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
You can do pretty much anything you want to do in America as a black, including become president. Still, the legacy of… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating… — Dwight Garner Copy Share Image
I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
The '90s were a time when not just the movie business, but every aspect of American life, became a lot more corporate.… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work,… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
The individualism of American life, to our glory and despair, creates anger and encourages its release; for when everything is possible, limitations… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“All the structural problems that economists had warned about coalesced after 1973–74 to jolt American life. These included sagging productivity, declining competitiveness… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
