#rican

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#born #brazil #communal #corrupt #democracies

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#day #every #every day #fairly #inspired

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#american cinema #because #cinema #french #i

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#corny #crack #goal #market #may

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#chaos #character #contradictory #hash #ideas

But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#american #american people #certain #certain kinds #congress

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. ↗

— Billy Graham

#indulgence #lack #lifestyle #now #over

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#american #attackers #buildings #cause #collapse

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money. ↗

— Phil Gramm

#american politics #friend #i #money #most

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor. ↗

— Lee Grant

#african #african american #ahead #allowing #american