Apocalyptic Quote by Junot Diaz

I always thought that the U.S. was just amazing, and it was just a dream. I thought it was Heaven. Coming here a couple…

— Joel Embiid

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall,…

— Justin Cronin

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we…

— Joseph Rotblat

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

— Aasif Mandvi

I'm an immigrant to the U.S., and I've constantly been thinking about America both from the inside and from the outside. And I've come…

— Dinesh D'Souza

The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they…

— Gore Vidal

People say I'm America's worst nightmare. I say I'm the American dream.

— Latrell Sprewell

I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.

— Kofi Annan

It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things…

— Cynthia Nixon

I see America through the eyes of a victim. I dont see any American dream. I see an American nightmare.

— Malcolm X

I feel like, Estonia, the sky is so low, and the people are much more close-minded than in America. So when I came to…

— Kerli

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.

— Malcolm X