“Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.” StatesTodayAbleAmericaUnitedUnited StatesLet MeNotesUnited States Of America Author:Angela Merkel
“The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.” WarAmericaColdNotesBordersDivisionCold WarHostileAberration Author:Bill Vaughan
“Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.” WorldWayWritingFirstsStatesMightAmericaUnitedUnited StatesGenerationsCenturyTwentiesNotesMissionsDecadesHistorianHistoric Book:The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest Source: The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest
“Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.” CountryStatesWholeRealityAmericaBeautifulSongSocialToo MuchIdentityEmotionalBearsCitizensRacismRiversNotesVariousFrighteningFabricUrbanEpicMistakenDoomSpoonsAnthologyClaudiaMistaken Identity Author:Hilton Als