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Americanized Quotes (page 66)

Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a..."
Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no. Kurt Vonnegut
I'm a Midwesterner, and everyone in Ohio is excited. I'm also a New Yorker, and a New Jerseyan, and an American, plus I'm an African-American, and a woman. I know it seems like I'm spreading like algae when I put it this way, but I'd like to think of the prize being distributed to these regions and nations and races. Toni Morrison
Nite Owl II: But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream? The Comedian: It came true. You're lookin' at it. Alan Moore
Edith Wharton quote: "Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by..."
Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self? Edith Wharton
Hunter S. Thompson quote: "We are going out again in search of the American dream."
We are going out again in search of the American dream. Hunter S. Thompson
And war is wonderful, isn't it? For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step. In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition that could not fail to arise on all sides. Antonin Artaud
We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us. Malcolm X
Kristin Hersh quote: "If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they..."
If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys. Kristin Hersh
A big, sandy-haired man held his daughter on his shoulders, showing her the Statue of Liberty. I would never know what this statue meant to others, she had always been an ugly joke for me. And the American flag was flying from the top of the ship, above my head. I had seen the French flag drive the French into the most unspeakable frenzies, I had seen the flag which was nominally mine used to dignify the vilest purposes: now I would never, as long as I lived, know what other saw when they saw... James Baldwin
I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them. J. K. Rowling
Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the VooDoo- modernized into the Philly Dog, the Hully Gully, the Funky Chicken, the Popcorn, the Boogaloo and the dance of great American choreographer Buddy Bradley. Ishmael Reed
He spent part of last year working in Canada, and I think it rubbed off on him, diminishing his innate American ability to celebrate the civic virtue of idiocy. Sarah Vowell
Ian Fleming quote: "Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that..."
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. Ian Fleming
B. B. King quote: "The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is..."
The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source. B. B. King
A little later, the Apollo mission was consummated and there were Americans on the moon. I remember distinctly looking up from the quad on what was quite a moon-flooded night, and thinking about it. They made it! The Stars and Stripes are finally flown on another orb! Also, English becomes the first and only language spoken on a neighboring rock! Who could forbear to cheer? Still, the experience was poisoned for me by having to watch Richard Nixon smirking as he babbled to the lunar-nauts by... Christopher Hitchens

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