I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes...
Keith EllisonStichwörter: politics america muslim quran
It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge America’s faults. No country is perfect… We can’t reach the top of the mountain if we don’t fix the injustice and confront our lies.
Keith EllisonStichwörter: inspirational politics justice america congress
[Martin Luther King] said that little black boys and little black girls would be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers. Then he reminded both those spectators before him and all Americans that this hope of his, this faith, was rooted in the promise of America.
Keith EllisonStichwörter: inspirational politics america civil-rights promises united
You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.
Kiera CassStichwörter: love change america sad goodbye relationship the-selection maxon the-elite
I know there was a time, when our country was new, when the assignment of these numbers helped organize something that was on the brink of not existing. But we are no longer that country. We are so much more now.
Kiera CassStichwörter: change america the-selection kiera-cass the-elite
I wanted to be his dear, his darling.
Kiera CassA freedom given up is not so easily regained.
Rivera SunStichwörter: freedom america freedom-of-thought novels freedom-of-speech civil-rights-movement constitution freedom-of-expression freedom-of-the-press civil-liberty constitutional-rights
When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.
Steven PressfieldStichwörter: art soul america creativity consumerism destiny
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
Karl MarxStichwörter: liberty freedom america usa revolution freedom-of-choice civil-war marx communism slavery socialism
Of course one’s sense of identification with the nation is inflected by all kinds of particulars, including one’s class, race, gender, and sexual identification. … But [regarding] national character …, aside from references to a national aesthetic — literary, musical, and choreographic, there are two poles I reference: minimalist and maximalist. I love them both — the cryptic poems of Emily Dickinson folded up in tiny packets and hidden away in a box, the sparse, understated choreographies of Merce; but also the “trashy, profane and obscene” poems of Whitman and Ginsberg, [and] Martha Graham’s expressionism. I am, myself, a minimalist. But I love distortion guitar and the wild exhibitionism of so many American artists. Also, these divisions are false. Emily Dickinson, in fact, can be as trashy and obscene as the best of them! Anyway, Dickinson and Whitman are at the heart of this narrative. They are the Dancing Queen and the Guitar Hero.
Barbara BrowningStichwörter: america minimalism maximalism i-m-trying-to-reach-you
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