There is one expanding horror in American
life. It is that our long odyssey toward
liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may
be achieved in such a way that utopia
remains forever closed, and we live in
freedom and hell, debased of style, not
individual from one another, void of
courage, our fear rationalized away.
-- Norman
Mailer
1923-,
American Author
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a
diner, unless you eat some of what's on that
plate. Being here in America doesn't make
you an American. Being born here in America
doesn't make you an American.
-- Malcolm X
1925-1965,
American Black Leader, Activist
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a
sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises,
a formidable current develops, and it seems
it will engulf everything. Wait a moment,
another current will appear and bring the
first one to naught.
-- Jacques
Maritain
1882-1973,
French Philosopher
The American character looks always as if it
had just had a rather bad haircut, which
gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater
humanity than the European, which even among
its beggars has an all too professional air.
-- Mary
Mccarthy
1912-1989,
American Author, Critic
