America Quote by NoViolet Bulawayo Download Open image ““this place doesn't look like my America”” — NoViolet Bulawayo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare America
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 Copy Share Image
“You say your city the way some Americans say this is their country. You never feel right saying that - my country. For some… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“America: this strange, huge place where I now found myself living that I knew I didn’t understand. But I wanted to understand it. More… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Think of anything, of cowboys, of movies, of detective stories, of anybody who goes anywhere or stays at home and is an American and… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“There's nothing more frightening to me than a character who thinks he knows what a real American is – mainly because it generally turns… — Donald Hamilton Copy Share Image
“This place does not feel like my country. It feels like countries I have read about where things are very bad. It feels, in… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“America belongs to all who live here and call her home; of every color and background; that is central to what makes America great.… — Leland Lewis Copy Share Image
America is a magical place, and I think my job, or the job of a lot of us European filmmakers is to just hold… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
“My family is like America; we are a blend of melanin and uncertain borders.” — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image
“I believe it went like this—and stop me if I’m wrong, Mousey: ‘Listen, we may not be our own continent and everything, but we… — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
“Further and further we go, and the sun keeps ironing us and ironing us and ironing us.” — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“...and the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers that are… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.” — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“Heaven is boring. Didn't you see, in that picture book back when we used to go to school? It's just plain and white and… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“You pray and pray and pray and nothing changes, like for example I prayed for a real house and good clothes and a bicycle… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“It's not the lying itself that makes me feel bad but the fact that I'm here lying to my friends.” — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“a country is a Coca-Cola bottle that can smash on the floor and disappoint you” — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“Look at them leaving in droves despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong, knowing… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“He speaks with this tone like he owns things, but we know that even the baton stick in his hands is not his, that… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“At first it comes in small drops; that's how pee does, if somebody is watching, then it just won't come. I get more tiny… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“When you look into their faces it's like something that was in there got up and gathered its things and walked away.” — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“Others with names like myths, names like puzzles, names we had never heard before: Virgilio, Balamugunthan, Faheem, Abdulrahman, Aziz, Baako, Dae-Hyun, Ousmane, Kimatsu. When… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
