In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“The idea of preventive medicine is faintly un-American. It means, first, recognizing that the enemy is us.” — 1975 Chicago Tribune Copy Share Image
American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Natural-born American means you don't have to be naturalized. You were born to an American mother, like President Obama, no matter where… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the… — Linda Tripp Copy Share Image
If you call yourself an American that means that you have embraced the constitution, because that is what an American is. A… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
