Americana Quote by Robert Plant

I hate the word 'Americana,' so I won't use it. I don't even know what Americana is, exactly.

— Uncle Kracker

An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

— Charles Olson

I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There's still a very narrow definition of Americana.

— Rhiannon Giddens

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

— Mark Twain

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.

— Ambrose Bierce

I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?

— Chris Matthews

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

— Sandra Cisneros

An American is a guy, a rich guy with a family, a decent guy with a family with as many kids as he likes,…

— Jack Kirby

Making sweeping over-generalizations is classically un-American.

— Anthony Scaramucci

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use…

— Don DeLillo

Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . .…

— Amerigo Vespucci

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

— Vine Deloria Jr