America Quote by Johnny Marr

I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming American.

— Luc Sante

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America

— Monica Bellucci

“...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

Well, I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.

— Kanye West

I didn't grow up in politics.

— Richard Mourdock

So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.

— Aasif Mandvi

Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story -…

— Michelle Obama

At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then…

— Thomas Metzinger

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

— Xander Schauffele

I didn't fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this 'ideal America.' Finally I…

— Mitski

I said that my parents had come from India. They thought America was a place where people were treated equally, and their kids would…

— Neal Katyal

I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski