Genesis Rodriguez Quotes
I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.
Genesis Rodriguez
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
Abigail Washburn
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
Yuliya Snigir
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After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
Tayari Jones
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
H. R. McMaster
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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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If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.
Linda Tripp
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America is a great country. I've been in the south, in the center and in the north. I like it. Americans are very good people. There's just too much air-conditioning.
Mario Balotelli
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We've yet to deal with the uncomfortable history of England being involved in the transatlantic slave trade, whereas America has at least made some movies dealing with its racial history.
David Harewood
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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Brendan Behan
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I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.
Genesis Rodriguez