Art Quote by Will Davis

Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

— John Cho

Being an American is an action; it's an ideal to strive for. It's being part of this constantly perfecting union that, with each generation,…

— Sarah McBride

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

— Ken Liu

A lot of people have had good discussions about what it means to be American, and we need to broaden our definition.

— Lee Isaac Chung

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we…

— Leslie Fiedler

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.

— William J. Clinton

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

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

— Robert Penn Warren

I think that every individual is a microcosm of the culture that they're born into. They reflect the anxieties, insecurities, and strengths of that…

— Haroon Moghul

I wonder what it means when Americans say I'm an American. In Britain the culture is basically the same from one end of the…

— Helen Mirren

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

— George Santayana

This Presidents Day, let's take a moment to reflect on what it means to be an American. God bless America!

— Anonymous