African american Quote by Toni Morrison

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

— Toni Morrison

I think we don't need to be talking about hyphenated Americans, because we are all Americans, and we all want the same thing.

— Rafael Cruz

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone…

— Frank McCourt

I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.

— Bobby Jindal

The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States…

— John Wayne

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“On identity politics: “The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that’s what we have to put up with. I think that any person that’s in…

— Scott Eyman

I'm tired of hyphenated Americans.

— Bobby Jindal

I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America…

— Bharati Mukherjee

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

— Woodrow Wilson

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.

— Carlos Beruff