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"I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe."
"I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks."
"I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America."
"I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes."
"Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is - and that's in their own home communities."
"The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die."
"I would like to see America some day."
"When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America"
"The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed."
"In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization."
"America is one long expectoration."
"I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean."
"I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them."
"In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services"
"Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism."
"One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses."
"Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places."
"China was the most optimistic place I'd ever been. Everybody I met was pretty much convinced that their children would have it better than their parents had had it. It was like being in America in the 1950's, with this deep optimism about the future because everything was getting better, and that fascinated me."
"When you innovate no one else can figure out how to do what you're doing because you're too far ahead of them. And the day they do figure out, you're on to the next object, the next widget, the next concept in innovation. And so America has benefited economically from the space race even though it was driven by military."
"Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world."
