Accepted Quote by Jessica Alba

“Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it”

— Richard Wright

No matter what, people are so narrow minded that it won't ever be Michelle Rodriguez the actress, it will always be Michelle Rodriguez the…

— Michelle Rodriguez

Actually, until a few years ago, my English was very poor. I wasn't thinking of my American roots at all, until I went to…

— Sergino Dest

The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American culture. Maybe…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.

— Xander Schauffele

As a child, I used to feel much more American than Iranian. Like everyone else at school, I pledged allegiance to the flag. However,…

— Mohammad Marandi

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always…

— Amy Chua

I feel the American people are resilient.

— Jacky Rosen

“you know when i was a little kid in oregon i didn't feel that i was and american at all, with all that suburban…

— Jack Kerouac

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

— David Lebovitz

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

— Willem de Kooning

“...I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper grey censorship…

— Jack Kerouac

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become…

— Salman Rushdie

I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially…

— Colin Firth

I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice to The…

— James Gray