The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans. - Leslie Fiedler

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I feel like [terrorism] acts are un-Islamic. So to see that happen and somebody do that in the name of God, it just - and the religion that you practice, it just - it hurts your heart so deeply because it's such a misrepresentation of the faith.

Leslie Fiedler

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

Americans, Black, Changed, Realized, Situation

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I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

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There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

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To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

America, Destiny, English, History, Imagine, Inherit

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

Book, Gray, Gray Area, Memoir, Novel

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

Knows, Novels, Reading, Reason, Talk To Me

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Wilmer Valderrama

It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory for them to read.

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Mahershala Ali

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Laszlo Nemes

Sometimes all we need is only listening to an inner voice and remaining human in a very personal way. But even if it is a personal way, it's still a very valid way - maybe the most valid way. It doesn't have to be a collective experience or someone telling you what to do. The most sacred human experience can be a very personal one.

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John Noble

I loved playing Walternate because he was completely the same character, version 1985, and then it developed in such a different way, physically and mentally. So, to be able to play that, in the same television series, as playing the other ones was a fantastic gift for me.

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Allan McNish

My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.

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