American dream Quote by Yaa Gyasi

“Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom,…

— Judy Croome

“He wants to believe that Shakespeare wrote all those books, that Lincoln fought the Civil War to free the slaves and the United States…

— Paul Beatty

“all of it, all of that bounty, was for everyone, for everyone to use, seemingly put here to teach a man to be free,…

— George Saunders

“I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never…

— Frank E. Peretti

“He was convinced that poverty was the only way of life for a certain category of people; they would die without it.”

— Ninotchka Rosca

“No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master…

— Jay Grewal

“It was America, after all. The sort of place where you should be allowed to walk as high as you wanted. But what if…

— Colum McCann

“Perhaps because of this, he felt he always knew who and what he was, which is why, as he moved farther and then further…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“A person doesn't try to obtain freedom if they think they're already free.”

— Jasun Ether

“We were born as a free soul. We only become enslaved in the world.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita