America Quotes - Page 321

Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.

I know some people are offended by the fact that I'm spending a lot of money trying to win the America's Cup. I could have given all that money to charity.

Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun - not to kill someone, but to stop a crime.

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is" - not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in South America.

Now, all America sits in front of television sets and those television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough so that people who have made a habit of watching TV ... get the TV radiation.

Donald Trump didn't just throw out the playbook, he set fire to it. And America loved it.

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically.

I wanted to honor [George Gershwin]. He's a great American songwriter.

What's really appealing about women's cycling in America? If you took a poll in the women's peloton, I would bet you that 90% of the women have college degrees, and a lot of them have Masters. The women's peloton is very well educated.

Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.

I think that the invisibility of hunger in America - to the eye - is what's keeping it invisible politically and to America at large.

I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And when I'm around black Americans'I feel very North African. North Africa and black America are both the creators of Kola Boof.

When you have difficult issues on the table for discussion, then sometimes for Africa you may have Burundi or Gambia representing them on the Security Council; and then for Latin America you may have a country like Costa Rica, which is a wonderful country but they don't have the same weight as others from the other regions. And sometimes they get bullied. Sometimes their capitals come under lots of pressure to take a position.

How can you have a world of today where India is not represented in the Security Council; Japan, the second contributor, is not there; the whole continent of Africa, soon to be 54 countries, don't have a single permanent seat; and Latin America is absent? It's not realistic.

That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American, we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, if we’ve progressed as a society, then you don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.

I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American.

While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.

What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.

I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it's great.