Blue Quote by Malcolm X

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

— Robert Penn Warren

Much of how Americans have always understood their history, culture, and identity depends on positioning Europe as the 'other,' as that 'old world' against…

— Linda Colley

I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society…

— Khaled Hosseini

Everyone in America thinks I'm American - and everyone in England seems to think I'm American.

— David Harewood

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we…

— Leslie Fiedler

Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

— Margaret Thatcher

Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.

— Jon Anderson

We are a part of this unique, complex, and complicated fabric of what it means to be an American. Americans come in all colors,…

— Tamlyn Tomita

Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us…

— Ruth Benedict

I'm so tired of people saying you have to look a certain way to be American.

— Arden Cho