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"I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need."
"The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else."
"That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America."
"The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production."
"I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh and happiness high up. The only way to leave even the smallest trace. So that all his life her son would feel gladness unaccountably when anyone spoke of the ruined city of steel in America. Each time almost remembering something maybe important that got lost."
"I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes."
"Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train."
"Families are always rising and falling in America."
"America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home."
"It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great country."
"America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin"
"New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis."
"There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart"
"We can make America what America must become."
"Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be."
"There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion."
"The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed."
"What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America."
"Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with."
"The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building."
