#erica

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

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol. ↗

— John Mahoney

#america #anymore #because #british #did

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#case #clerical #dismissed #guilt #itself

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#big #center #eye #fortunate #hear

By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression. ↗

— Manning Marable

#beyond #black #categories #construct #dismantling

I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#championship #difficult #face #i #old

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#admire #american #art #artists #culture

Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball. ↗

— Roger Maris

#american league #back #ballpark #baseball #day

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#african-american #american people #areas #i #know

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful. ↗

— Don McLean

#american #american pie #despairing #hopeful #pie