Able Quote by Jehane Noujaim

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and…

— Chinua Achebe

It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of…

— Marya Hornbacher

People have different ways of interpreting history.

— Nate Silver

The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We…

— Chris Abani

Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

— Sam Esmail

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years. But as I got older, my pops tried to…

— Nipsey Hussle

I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their…

— Steve Cosson

As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she came to…

— Bryce Dessner

“I've never seen good results from people trying to speak about things they don't know firsthand. They will talk about Afghanistan, about children in…

— Michael Haneke

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how…

— Maeve Binchy

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's…

— Mira Nair

I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware. So many Americans, for one reason or…

— Henry Rollins