#rican

And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#americans #decline #defeat #docility #exhaustion

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive. ↗

— Richard Wright

#inspirational #inspirational

That was out of line.” “No, it wasn’t, querida.” He smiled, the devastating smile she found irresistible. “You’re my wife, and you do have an amazing mouth. ↗

— Delaney Diamond

#delaney-diamond #interracial-romance #the-arrangement #men

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available. ↗

— Roy Romer

#american #american dream #available #before #challenges

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#american cinema #become #cinema #disposable #even

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#american women #chinese #clothes #comes #flesh

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#america #american #because #buy #countries

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#american way #finish #job #start #way

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#american #american idol #during #i #idol

American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror. ↗

— Howard Berman

#american foreign policy #based #been #continue #exist