America Quotes - Page 53

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but America elected a man who enjoys grabbing women by their pussies.

When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.

God has not called us to save America; He has called us to save Americans from the coming judgment of God by introducing them to faith in Jesus Christ.

Being the puppet master, it's like running Nintendo of America.

Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain.

None so blind as those who will not see.

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.

The wisdom of the masses is not always wise. You could put a lot of things to a vote-you could have put anti-miscegenation laws to a vote, and that would have passed pretty handily. Either all people are created equal-or they're not. You're either buying into the original premise of America-or you're not.

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

People have it so good in America that they get bored very easily. And when people get bored they start protesting things.

The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality - which became America's - was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.

In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.