American Quote by Lucie Brock-Broido

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege…

— Eric Liu

There are few things more American than falling back on the language of race when what we're really talking about is class or, more…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

— Stan Brakhage

The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as 'Communists' or 'Fascists' by…

— Margaret Chase Smith

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress…

— John Ralston Saul

I hope America does not accept the kind of language that Donald Trump is using to describe our fellow Americans.

— Hillary Clinton

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

— Tom Stoppard

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

— Oscar Wilde

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

— Anna Deavere Smith

We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in my election…

— Nguyen Minh Triet

I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.

— Aaron McGruder

We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's…

— Amanda Bynes