American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.
The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.
It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.