Maya Angelou Quotes

We hear a lot in this country about family, and 'American Family' just shows us a portrait we haven't seen as much of yet. 'American Family' lets us know that being American isn't about the color of your hair or eyes or skin: it's really a state of mind.

Americans are the pick of the more adventurous and people of all races.

The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

As an East Asian looking at America, I find attractive and unattractive features. I like, for example, the free, easy and open relations between people regardless of social status, ethnicity or religion.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.

No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.

I am proof that, as Americans, we can embrace our differences.

We're a country of many different cultures, and that's always what has made this country stand out. It almost feels like making diverse movies is the most American thing you can do.

I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America.

We are a part of this unique, complex, and complicated fabric of what it means to be an American. Americans come in all colors, creeds, and colors of the rainbow, and we can celebrate this together.

I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.

I embrace both my Vietnamese and American sides, 100 percent.

New York is great because it's such a cross-section of the world, and when you're used to people being shoulder-to-shoulder all the time - in the street, on the train - you become a people person. People are very open to hearing a lot of different perspectives, and they aren't as sensitive.

We Europeans really have the picture of this very open-minded Australia.

Amsterdam is a breeding ground for new creative pursuits in many areas fueled by a tolerance and openness to ideas unlike any world city I've been to. There is something for everyone here, especially when you dare to go off the beaten path.

They're completely American. When I served my son falafel in a pita the other day, he said, 'Daddy, this taco is very good.'

I want to expand my horizons and mix with different people.

I've been so lucky to meet people from every walk of life.

The bedrock of this country are immigration and, really, a great separation between church and state.

A lot of kids can't identify with the things I've done and where I'm from and who I am as an individual. That's why I've tried to be a person and live my life in a way that can be identified by all cultures.

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes to believe that by being better Jews, or better members of our ethnic group, we can be better Americans, because America is like an orchestra in which identity is defined by the diversity of perspectives that we bring to the table.