Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.”

— Bruce Cumings

“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

“Are you an American? No, I am not an American. I am the American.”

— Mark Twain

“You never feel more American than when you leave America.”

— David Lebovitz

“Don't you ever just think of yourself as American?”

— Sabrina Vourvoulias

“We need to stop thinking that some Americans are the real Americans, the deserving, the talented, the most patriotic and hardworking, while others can…

— Nancy Isenberg

“Once upon a time there was a war...and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and…

— Denis Johnson

“That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in…

— Neela Vaswani

“Every American is from somewhere else. Each is hated for what he brings that is different from the rest. We live in uneasy peace.…

— Scott Turow

“An American is a man who is greater in his soul than in his class, creed, political party, or the section in which he…

— David Barton

“The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”

— James Baldwin