#american

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#context #cultural #distinctly #ethnic #gender

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#answer #aspects #aware #consider #cultural

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#art #come #culture #excluded #high

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#always #american #american tradition #apolitical #comes

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. ↗

— George Wald

#i #know #most #peacetime #thing

The concept of war crimes is an American invention. ↗

— George Wald

#concept #crimes #invention #war

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. ↗

— Alice Walker

#american people #i #jokes #people #power

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! ↗

— Kerry Washington

#afforded #african-american #college #could #ellis

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#been #big #big time #city #ever

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#american #american dream #anything #build #dream