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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

Experience, City, Thinking, Amazing, New

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

Black, Great, Experience, Nation, Unique

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

Freedom, Music, Experience, Mind, People

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

Great, Experience, Ambition, Book, White

There's a misconception that I can't relate to the quote-unquote 'Asian-American experience' because I didn't grow up with an Asian mom and dad. And that's just not true. I am Asian American, and so playing a girl who is half Korean, half white, but her white dad tried really hard to connect with her mom's heritage - that's very familiar to me. Lana Condor

Girl, I Am, Mom, Experience, Dad, Me

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

Life, Freedom, Business, Experience, Own

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

Black, Experience, People, Think, View

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

Memories, Best, Walk, Football, Day

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

Family, Experience, Tree, You, Trees

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

Black, Experience, American, Immigrant

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

Experience, American, Early, Than

It's part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential of being shot, at any time, by a semiautomatic weapon as we try to go about the most boring, precious, asinine aspects of our daily lives. Monica Hesse

Time, Health, Experience, Daily, Care

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's so much about our whole legacy that was stolen and that we lost in the Transatlantic slave trade that we'll never find out. Cheo Hodari Coker

Experience, Legacy, Roots, Slavery, Lost

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

Experience, Government, American, Over

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

Experience, City, Place, New York, New

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

Experience, Law, Magic, American, Rule

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

Freedom, Experience, Understanding

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

Art, Experience, Sometimes, American

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, Experience, Economics, Values

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

Experience, Africa, Alien, American

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

Black, Experience, Attention, American

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

Experience, Important, American, Most

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

Experience, Self, World, New, Difficult

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

Education, School, Art, Experience, High

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock. Fred Tomaselli

Work, Culture, Experience, Rock, Punk

I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done. Malcolm D. Lee

Experience, Movies, Mission, American

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