#rican

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american foreign policy #aspects #barack #battle #change

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#accepted #adult #amazement #american #character

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american life #background #journalism #life #noise

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels. ↗

— Dick Armey

#american family #cut #family #going #levels

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#been #changed #democracy #freedom #got

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#adapt #american #asked #country #customs

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#aristocracy #contemporary #every #fallen #feels

People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run. ↗

— David Axelrod

#american people #country #doing #doorstep #help

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#around #been #call #comes #culture

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#american society #around #house #i #journals