"The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion."

American, Americans, Illusion, World

56

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion."

Exlpore more American quotes

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

American, Trying

"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."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

American, Americans, Deals

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

Will Rogers, American Actor

American, Americans, Tax, Golf, Income

"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."

John Steinbeck, American Author

American, Coffee, Pride

"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

Ralph Ellison, American Author

American, America, Fate, Prophecy

"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

Jonathan Frakes, American Actor

American, Baseball, Jazz, Literature

"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

American, America, Glory, Poor, Years

"Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world."

Betsy Ross, American Celebrity

American, Knight, Today, World

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

Gordon Waller, Scottish Musician

American, Artists, Brothers

"It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver."

Morton Gould, American Musician

American, Taste

Explore more quotes by Talib Kweli

"The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with."

Music

"I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props."

Music

"I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility."

Responsibility

"As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to."

Time

"People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star."

People

"We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of."

Politics

56

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more American quotes

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"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."

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

"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."

"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."

"Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world."

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

"It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver."

Explore more quotes by Talib Kweli

"The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with."

"Woman are complex creatures."

"Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record."

"I think music sharing of any kind is great."

"I don't feel comfortable making empty music."

"I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props."

"I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility."

"As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to."

"People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star."

"We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of."