Maysoon Zayid quote: "I am not naive, and I do realize that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I am also fully aware that when segregation ended, we didn't all live happily ever after. No one can convince me, however, that life in America would be better if blacks and whites had stayed separate and unequal."

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I s...
CHARLEY PRIDE

Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the lo...
TONI MORRISON

So what do you do if you are imprisoned for your race and ethnicity? The message is, Those are your ...
SUN YUNG SHIN

Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America ha...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is i...
EDNA O'BRIEN

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a sub...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the...
GARTH STEIN

I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.
AL GORE

Who am I? I am that. Nothing can change that. Words, intellect and concepts can never reach that. It...
AMIT RAY

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the Unite...
JOHN THUNE

I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itse...
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE

Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.
CARLOS WALLACE

I am shamed to realize that in my marriage, my daughters never heard their father and me fight, whic...
SANDRA TSING LOH

It's not the fact that some people disagree with the protests. That is as much a right as the protes...
CARLOS WALLACE

That goes for whites, too, ... If I made all this money and I want money invested here, I have a rig...
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United State...
JOE BIDEN

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life...
DOLLY PARTON

I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am di...
GARY NEVILLE

This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they a...
WERLEY NORTREUS

After one divorce and other on the way I am seriously considering a ME-rriage now and .t's going to ...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES

Life has taught me that if someone is being whipped and someone is whipping this person, I am always...
ADAM MICHNIK

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no pl...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any...
GEORGE BRETT

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believ...
KAREN BLACK

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of Americ...
OLIVER NORTH

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not ju...
PHYLICIA RASHAD

I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to th...
TOMMY FRANKS

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w...
MARGARET THATCHER

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. T...
BARACK OBAMA

I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced
FRANK ZAPPA

I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I

Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN

Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER

These are not armed criminals, and that's the way they were treated, ... And I find that terrifying ...
CONNIE MACK

We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, ...
STEVEN BIKO

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
WINSTON CHURCHILL

You are the ultimate freedom, peace and bliss - free from the trace of desire, fear and doubts.
AMIT RAY

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United State...
BILL HICKS

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wa...
ANNA KOURNIKOVA

The United States military, because of people like you, can do things for a troubled world that no o...
HILLARY CLINTON

I want to look happily forward. I want to be optimistic. I want to have a dream. I want to live in j...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT

The Wild West mentality is still strong in America, ... especially if you go to a place like Texas, ...
ANDREW NICCOL

The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe th...
IAN MILLAR

I believe that Senate Bill 1070 lit America on fire. I think we've all realized exactly what the...
JAN BREWER

No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice a...
KATE BECKINSALE

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greates...
DOUG LIMAN

Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schoo...
BOB BECKEL

I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not ado...
VIRGIL GOODE

Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the a...
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC

Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the ne...
JOHN RIDLEY

I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can...
HILL HARPER

We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't...
A. J. MCLEAN

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the in...
THURGOOD MARSHALL

I have always felt deep within myself that I do not trust that I am already OK as I am, and that I d...
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old crow that gives more milk t...
DEAN RUSK

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait w...
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced
FRANK ZAPPA

In just two weeks, Bill Clinton will no longer be President of the United States. He'll just be anot...
JAY LENO

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But...
STEPHEN KING

I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But ...
I. M. PEI

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our su...
DANNY GLOVER

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can ...
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me.
CORY MONTEITH

I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might hap...
TARIQ ALI

I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. Howeve...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in...
RICHARD C. ARMITAGE

I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if...
WALT WHITMAN

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, ...
JACKIE ROBINSON

I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the ...
PARDIS SABETI

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where ...
JOHN CUSACK

'Step Brothers' itself, when I did it, I don't know if I had any idea that it would beco...
ADAM SCOTT

I will be the 43-year-old guy in the jumpsuit. In my estimation and my image of myself is that I am ...
ANDY COHEN

I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

If I am who I am, I'm provocative, candid, and androgynous; there's nothing I can do that wi...
HALSEY

How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?'
'It will d...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in Americ...
DAVID HOROWITZ

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought...
CAT STEVENS

I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will pr...
BARACK OBAMA

It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose ...
OLIVIA HUSSEY

There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America -- there is the ...
BARACK OBAMA

I don't have a vested interest in a particular political career or a particular political office...
JILL STEIN

I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of th...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM

We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't h...
LATOYA LONDON

I have no regrets. I had an amazing surrogate who carried my son for me. I am so grateful to her. I ...
MARISSA JARET WINOKUR

We only live once. We all have an expiration date after that we will never come again. I am not sayi...
PABLO VALLE

I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. Am...
THERESA REBECK

I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's t...
WILLIE GEIST

I can tell you with confidence that Israel is not spying in the United States or in the Pentagon -- ...
YUVAL STEINITZ

I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am theref...
DAVID GRAEBER

I'll understand if you don't want me. But I will be heartbroken. You are all I ever dreamed of and h...
MAEVE BINCHY

I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are...
VANESSA HUDGENS

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doin...
JAMES DURBIN

Performing live is not my favourite. I am more of a recording person; I prefer to be private. I didn...
AGNETHA FALTSKOG

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seem...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

I believe that Obamacare is bad for America.
DAN WEBSTER

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