#eric

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#african-american #amp #any #culture #did

erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries—America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, in the artifacts of generations, in the bones of empires. ↗

— Jess Walter

#cowboys #empires #italy #age

I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver. ↗

— Chazz Palminteri

#being #built #bus #bus driver #community

If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#body #by the people #catastrophic #continue #elected

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another. ↗

— Richard Perle

#american #another #claim #community #members

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#avoid #founded #land #taxation

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment. ↗

— Jill Robinson

#american dream #avoidance #commitment #dream #ending

I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am. ↗

— Bob Mould

#am #america #comfortable #coming #fit

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#american life #any #destructive #force #left

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #america #asked #come #i