#american

I am an Israeli-born American citizen. ↗

— Guy Oseary

#american #american citizen #citizen #i #i am

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. ↗

— E. B. White

#absolutely #american #believes #else #himself

An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it. ↗

— Jack White

#american tradition #feels #head #hundreds #i

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it. ↗

— Theodore White

#american #american politics #anything #arts #cannot

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter. ↗

— Shaun White

#greater #individual #longer #matter #olympian

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind. ↗

— Theodore White

#american politics #behind #end #leaves #logic

My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#ask #because #body #card #does

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