American Quotes

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

Marty Meehan
- American
I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

Eileen Myles

Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.

Johnny Colt The Black Crowes
- American
- Culture
- Poverty
I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary American.

Laurie Graham
- Live
- American
No foreign policy will stick unless the American people are behind it. And unless Congress understands it. And unless Congress understands it, the American people aren't going to understand it.

W. Averell Harriman
- People
- American
My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

Lauren Greenfield
I think the whole business of people emigrating was that no one ever told them, although everyone knew, especially if it was to the United States, that it was forever, and the party before you left was called an 'American wake,' in the sense that they knew you wouldn't come back.

Colm Toibin
- People
- Business
- Party
The Organization of Afro-American Unity was an organization that was a secular group. It largely consisted of people that we would later call several years later Black Powerites, Black nationalists, progressives coming out of the Black freedom struggle, the northern students' movement, people - students, young people, professionals, workers, who were dedicated to Black activism and militancy, but outside of the context of Islam.

Manning Marable
- People
- Black
- Freedom