American Quote by Firoozeh Dumas

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

“I'm an American, our names don't mean shit.”

— Quentin Tarantino

There are few things more American than falling back on the language of race when what we're really talking about is class or, more…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president…

— Jordan Peele

Americans have a wonderful way of just butchering everyone's names.

— Hong Chau

The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their…

— Tom Gjelten

America has many cultures which makes it great, but it's difficult to create one strong identity.

— Lidia Bastianich

“Today's American food culture is a contested landscape in search of values, new direction, and its own indigenous sense of rightness and self-worth. It's…

— Michael W. Twitty

I think we have cultural bias and practice some ethnocentrism when it comes to ethnic food in America.

— Andrew Zimmern

Our names were made for us in another century.

— Richard Brautigan

We'll continue to try to increase knowledge about our culture.

— Jin

“Americans find it hard to believe that foreigners are unalterably foreign, for they have seen generations of immigrants who became Americans. But old cultures…

— Saul Bellow