"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."

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"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."

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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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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."

Gordon Waller, Scottish Musician

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"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

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

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"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."

Eric Holder, American Public Servant

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"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."

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"I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human."

Chely Wright, American Musician

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