Jennifer Gilmore Quotes
With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard.Jennifer Gilmore
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
Yuliya Snigir -
I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
Samuel Barber -
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
Tayari Jones -
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
Ted Rall -
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
Daniel Alarcon
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The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
Barry Eisler -
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
Carl Bernstein -
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
Fabrizio Moreira -
'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.
Taissa Farmiga -
The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
Nancy Pearcey
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For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.
Lance Loud -
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
J. Paul Getty -
When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
Malcolm X -
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
Ian Hacking -
Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
Yanis Varoufakis -
My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Hollywood, they make up these Latinos because they have a certain physical type or a certain name or whatever... It's not that easy. It's like me wanting to do a movie with an American actor, and I say, 'Hey listen, I have either Johnny Depp or Carrot Top.'
Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama -
I think confidence comes from doing something well, working at it hard, and you build it up. It's not something you're born with. You have to build the confidence as you go along.
Doris Kearns Goodwin -
We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.
Maeve Binchy -
You can always tell when gas is expensive. You always see street gangs doing walk-bys.
Larry the Cable Guy -
You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.
Reba McEntire -
With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard.
Jennifer Gilmore