#erica

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american #as far as #back #black #born

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee? ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#committee #more #than #un-american

On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing. ↗

— Joe Lando

#artist #besides #cause #commissioned #first

America needs to be secure at home and abroad. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#america #home #needs #secure

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#american cities #cities #corruption #country #crime

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#around #go #got #over #problem

The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#anybody #behind #city #going #great

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female. ↗

— Queen Latifah

#age #because #citizen #female #i

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world. ↗

— James Laughlin

#american #deal #excuse #going #good

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence. ↗

— James Laughlin

#ancient #bit #blocks #break #break up