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Chita Rivera

"I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way."

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"I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way."

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"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."

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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

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"I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before."

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"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."

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"We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him."

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"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."

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"An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing."

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"It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice."

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"We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism."

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"For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible."

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