#rican

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter. ↗

— Shaun White

#greater #individual #longer #matter #olympian

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind. ↗

— Theodore White

#american politics #behind #end #leaves #logic

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community. ↗

— Saul Williams

#african-american community #always #aware #because #been

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game. ↗

— Ted Williams

#baseball #better #boy #chance #else

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around. ↗

— Terri Windling

#around #been #form #label #latin

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#chance #gave #legion #like #people

I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face. ↗

— Debra Winger

#american #burger #burger king #called #dairy

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element. ↗

— Alex Winter

#also #although #american #american movies #been

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know? ↗

— Rachel Griffiths

#australian #cricket #getting #grew #i

More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#already #american #american people #bring #combat