#erica

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor. ↗

— Lee Grant

#african #african american #ahead #allowing #american

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#fundamentalists #i #i think #identify #minority

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country? ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#american people #country #left #long #outrage

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice. ↗

— Eva Green

#blockbusters #choice #everyone #maybe #terminator

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer. ↗

— John Green

#center #chicago #city #during #economic

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. ↗

— John Green

#american #because #disease #epic #family

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny. ↗

— Seth Green

#funny #hysterically #real #sad #same

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#country #evils #faults #forest #know

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#american citizen #athlete #citizen #class #either

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#american #any #bald #because #bellies