Ability Quote by George W. S. Trow

In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use…

— Terence McKenna

When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.

— Ellen Burstyn

“Not only has there never before been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its immediate past, but there has never before…

— Simon Reynolds

“The middle-class standard of the independent self has increasingly become the default American standard for how to think, feel and act in the world…this…

— Susan T. Fiske

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and…

— William Gibson

There are so many - namely black and brown bodies - who have experienced a different America than what the mainstream American flag symbolizes.

— Maya Moore

“To be sure, rock n' roll is usually a flagrant commercialization of rhythm & blues, but the music in many cases depends on materials…

— Imamu Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones

Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American.

— Max Boot

“The only mainstream American household I know well is the one I grew up in, and I can report that my father, who was…

— Jonathan Franzen

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The…

— Malcolm Gladwell

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure…

— Diane Wakoski

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to…

— Alex Campbell

American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same…

— Ishmael Reed

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European…

— Sonny Rollins

I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American…

— Ian Anderson