#america

Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats. ↗

— Allan Houston

#african-american community #ago #basketball #community #especially

I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be. ↗

— Eric Holder

#american people #approaches #come #common #common sense

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#been #bound #civilization #environment #first

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#american people #biologically #half #immigrant #literally

In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#america #around #coffee #cops #eat

The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side. ↗

— Tim Scott

#based #drive #future #issues #our

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#american #black #dignity #i #i am

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#american politics #barack #because #black #cuz

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens. ↗

— Sheldon Jackson

#ambition #american #american citizens #among #best

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#bad #cultural #culture #downplay #game