#erica

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. ↗

— Ernest Gellner

#cars #compares #detroit #great #industry

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#america #art #art form #because #dying

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#bureaucratic #bureaucrats #centralized #crossroads #define

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#destroyed #generation #hysterical #i #madness

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood? ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#holy #how #i #i write #litany

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country? ↗

— Carter Glass

#american people #any #banks #country #debts

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact. ↗

— Jim Goad

#biological #caused #exploit #fact #how

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life. ↗

— John Doolittle

#culture #droves #eager #embrace #families

When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#american men #ask #country #defend #fight