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“I have a tremendous fascination with the United States of America, the grand, swirling variousness of it, the way it siphons off the ambitious,…

— Roland Merullo

“I realized that it was precisely because of America’s glaring imperfections that I should seek to participate in its progress, carve a place in…

— Eboo Patel

“To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it,…

— Kathleen Norris

“One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“We were all patriotic, but I can’t even conceive of what else we would’ve been, because our entire experience was domestic, interior, American. We”

— Suzy Hansen

“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.”

— Nikita Allgire

“The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around…

— Raquel Cepeda

“America had, I believe, a divine founding. Call it American exceptionalism if you like. But that makes America all the more vulnerable to God's…

— Fleming Rutledge

“We ...recognize the forces which have been trying to falsify American history—the forces which drive away many Americans to a corner of compromise with…

— Carlos Bulosan