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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

“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for. Perfection was…

— Joshua Ferris

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

“America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many.”

— Ralph Ellison

“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.”

— Joshua Ferris

“America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving.”

— Bryant McGill

“America wasn’t perfect, but nothing touched by human hands could be. There was greed, corruption, selfishness, pettiness, hatred. But there were good things too.…

— wildbow

“pluralism today—at least in America—exists without a dominant culture,”

— James Davison Hunter

“What I know about my country is that when America is challenged, we rise to the occasion. When we’re fearful, we become divided. When…

— Keith Ellison

“America was born out of despair & we'll all go through it in our lifetime. It's what we do with it that will help…

— Timothy Pina

“All America is divided into two classes - the quality and the equality. The latter will always recognize the former when mistaken for it.”

— Owen Wister

“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