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

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

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole."

Archie Shepp, American Musician

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"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."

Arthur Miller, American Playwright

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"I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets."

Sting, British Musician

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"When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out."

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"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."

Hans Kung, Swiss Theologian

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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."

Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist

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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."

Paul Harris, American Entertainer

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"Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese."

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