Class Quote by Christopher Hitchens

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

— Toni Morrison

“There is an ethnic component lurking in the background of my story. In our race-conscious society, our vocabulary often extends no further than the…

— J.D. Vance

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

— Toni Morrison

I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.

— Bobby Jindal

I think we don't need to be talking about hyphenated Americans, because we are all Americans, and we all want the same thing.

— Rafael Cruz

The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States…

— John Wayne

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

— Woodrow Wilson

I mean, ethnic is a meaningless term because everybody thinks it means brown or something, but actually, we're all ethnic.

— Paterson Joseph

I guess none of the sides of my hyphen are particularly subtle cultures. But perhaps there is also a sense that these characters are…

— Porochista Khakpour

I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America…

— Bharati Mukherjee

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone…

— Frank McCourt

I'm tired of hyphenated Americans.

— Bobby Jindal