American culture Quote by Saul Williams

“American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.”

Saul Williams

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The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

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Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

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