#erica

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#african american #american #every #had #inferior

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will. ↗

— Jon Lee Anderson

#back #become #bring #brink #build

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#america #i #island #lives #looks

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#american writer #hopelessly #rarely #sane #see

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#been #cruel #destroy #different #even

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#american #american people #courage #i #lot

You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#america #course #economics #leader #make

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#american #i #know

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. ↗

— Dave Attell

#indians #kid #loved #me #native

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#am #america #art #circuit #equivalent