American Proverbs and Sayings
18 American sayings collected from United States — 18 quotes.
About American sayings here
This page collects every saying in the archive recorded as coming from United States: 18 quotes. None of them carries a written explanation yet — the meanings are being written over time.
The named voices here are John Henrik Clarke (4), Malcolm X (3), Henry Louis Gates (2) and Dennis Prager (1).
The subjects they return to most often are History, Beauty, Race and Politics.
A few from this collection:
- The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
- You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
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