America Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the…

— Angela Davis

I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and…

— Rashida Tlaib

“people who wanted to change America back to how it used to be. Not an America with the segregation that was part of the…

— Mike Foster

The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams…

— Sue Monk Kidd

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

— Constance Baker Motley

Things have not changed as much as we would like to think they have. Or maybe we're just in another one of the divided…

— Paul Auster

We still are America though. We're still a country that is a country of social mobility. We're still a country of immigrants. We're still…

— David Brooks

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated…

— Samuel P. Huntington

They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. Well I remember the '60s, I was there and I wouldn't have missed it…

— Dave Clark

All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something…

— Jeffrey Eugenides