#erica

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#american flag #belief #carried #carry #cloth

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#american #discussion #general #going #ideas

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#backward #forward #go #going #need

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#american #archetypal #dean #dirty #every

I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#bad #bad rap #change #hopefully #i

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American. ↗

— John Cusack

#catholic #consider #i #i was raised #irish

When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#britons #brought #europe #fled #formed

We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life. ↗

— Colin Firth

#america #been #big #i #involved

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#assume #assumption #certainly #coat #crook

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. ↗

— David Eagleman

#american literature #british #i #literature #majored