American culture Quote by Robert Stone

“That is because the American inerrancy tradition, though largely a positive concept, is essentially modernist in construct, parochially American in context, and occasionally creates…

— Zondervan Publishing

Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But…

— Barbara Jordan

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways,…

— Ayad Akhtar

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

— Charles Olson

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant.…

— Harold Rosenberg

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here.…

— Louis D. Brandeis

I think the American landscape is a very special thing. There's a kind of complexity and solemnness within it.

— Taylor Russell

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the…

— Anna Deavere Smith

“In his Letters from an American Farmer, first published in 1782 in English and translated soon after into French, Crevecoeur described his adoptive country…

— Simon Anholt

“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

This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion,…

— Amy Lowell

“The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward”

— Michael Chabon