American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James Baldwin
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The making of an American begins at that point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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