#erica

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down. ↗

— Van Morrison

#audiences #concerts #down #i #me

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. ↗

— Van Morrison

#attached #beat #essence #folk #folk music

I know I will never have a hit single in America. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#hit #hit single #i #know #never

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. ↗

— Lance Morrow

#afternoon #american #american culture #bats #began

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks? ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#american #blacks #community #how #long

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#blacks #distance #father #his #kept

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#african #african americans #battling #century #major

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#because #most #preferred #slept #way

I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#adult #america #dealing #education #feel

Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel. ↗

— Tim Murphy

#america #decades #demand #domestic #expanded