America Quote by Glenn Ligon Download Open image “Much of my work is engaged with 'America' - the idea of America.” — Glenn Ligon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Engaged Idea Much Work
I do think of my work as being quintessentially American in that it could only have emerged in that particular situation that I find… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America. — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience. — Charles Bartlett Johnson Copy Share Image
You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own.… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own.… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America had already… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them. — Emilio Pucci Copy Share Image
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example,… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Race is not something inherent to one's being: One does feel more or less colored, depending on the situation. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I think there's an interest right now in the performance aspect of artworks, instead of just hanging things on walls. We're in a moment… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that I've used… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
My mother really didn't come from artists. Her famous quote to me was, "The only artists I've ever heard of are dead." The pottery… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I switched up so that I could work 12-hour shifts at the firm on the weekends so I could have days free to paint.… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
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