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One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people. Herbie Hancock

American, Jazz, About

You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience. Jeb Hensarling

American, Some, Losers

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. Ai Weiwei

Influenced, Expression

My first American experience was in the harbor of New York City when I saw that amazing big, tall lady. I remember thinking, 'Oh my goodness, a lady runs this country.' Rita Moreno

Big, Country, I Remember

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience. Mitt Romney

Mind, Freedom Of Religion

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World. Ayad Akhtar

New, Paradigm, Renewal

There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American experience is the American experience. Glenn Ligon

Learned, Culture, Innate

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. Bill Frist

Most, Important

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely. Charlton Heston

Films, Art, More

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible. Marco Rubio

Over, Allow, Reliance

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics. Jeb Bush

Politics, Immigration, More

It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale of American fiction that would encompass all the American experience in one great book. Michael Korda

Encompass, Novelists

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. Henry Louis Gates

Complexity, Legend, About

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City. Michael Bloomberg

New, City, More

If anyone sees anything in 'Black Lightning' that seems foreign to them, then they haven't been paying attention. This is a uniquely American experience. Salim Akil

Lightning, Been, Black

Throughout every presidency since the heist of our country from indigenous peoples, the black American experience has been exceptional in its discomfort. And no chief executive of this great nation has, in earnest, developed a unique plan to remedy that discomfort. Patrisse Cullors

Country, Been, Nation

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.' Terry Teachout

Art, Education, Issue

The magic of the American experience is that we've upheld the rule of law for everybody, everybody treated equally beneath the law. Paul Gosar

Magic, Treated, Everybody

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials. Evan Bayh

Country, National Pastime

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it. Opal Tometi

African American, Part

I grew up playing football since the day I could walk; some of my greatest memories of childhood are playing touch football in all kinds of weather with my best friends. That's a part of the American experience that no corporation can destroy. Greg Graffin

Kinds, Some, Part

The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It's all an online business now, and that's, you know - the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we're very reluctant to see go away. Jonathan Galassi

Very, Away, Music Business

As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American experience, it's probably even more important for black people to have that expanded view. Margot Lee Shetterly

Think, I Think, Necessary

I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one. Richard Ford

Larger, Southern

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it. K'naan

Very, Africa, Been

I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience. Wadada Leo Smith

Wanted, Identify, Black

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