#american culture

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I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.


Spike Lee


#african american #alone #american #american culture #black

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#american culture #appreciation #artists #athletes #community

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.


Leslie Fiedler


#american culture #blue #blue jeans #class #clothes

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.


Johnny Depp


#about #afraid #amazing #america #american

I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.'


Ryan Hurst


#american culture #car #concept #culture #distinctively

What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.


James T. Walsh


#american culture #believe #bet #centers #culture

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.


James Lafferty


#american #american culture #collect #creations #culture

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.


Mitt Romney


#american culture #culture #devotion #dignity #education

Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.


Tavis Smiley


#african #american #american culture #arrived #became

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.


Tabitha Soren


#american culture #culture #disappointed #i #surprised