“If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.” IfsDoeStillsMatterWould BeAmericaYoungParticularColorAdvantageSkinsPrivilegeToneWheelsCelebrationWhitenessSkin ToneColor Wheel Author:Eric Liu
“I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.” ThinkingKnowsWould BeAmericaPoetryInterestParticularPoetAdvantageEnglandDistractionBotheredTroublesomeDominating Author:T. S. Eliot
“Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defense against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding around the globe to forge greater cooperation, to expand new markets, to free people from fear and want. And no one is better positioned to take advantage of those opportunities than America.” PeopleWantAmericaRememberOpportunityUnderstandingGreaterAdvantageThreatDefenseEnormousDefinedCooperationGlobes Author:Barack Obama
“Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.” AmericaCitiesBuildingAdvantageDistanceHeightShopsAbstractionUglinessAmerican Cities Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm so tired of you, America.” KnowsWorldNeedsWellsMayMightAmericaAdvantageTownsTiredYou Again Author:Rufus Wainwright
“We will achieve North America energy independence by 2020, by taking full advantage of our oil, our gas, our coal, our renewables and our nuclear power. Abundant, inexpensive, domestic energy will not only create energy jobs, it will bring back manufacturing jobs.” JobsAmericaEnergyAchieveAdvantageIndependenceOilNuclearGasCoalManufacturingNorth AmericaNuclear PowerInexpensiveEnergy Independence Author:Mitt Romney