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“Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.”

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Author:Clarke Peters

“It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.”

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Author:Natan Sharansky

“Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.”

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Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.”

America Literature Given Wonder Years

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.”

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Author:Ferdinand Mount

“There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of all men. . . . This man, that object of attention, attack, and vast activity, cannot make himself be heard, let alone understood. He has never been listened to. . . . That man is Black and alive in white America where the media of communication do not allow the delivery of his own voice, his own desires, his own rage.”

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Author:June Jordan

“Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.”

“In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.”

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Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir

Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir