John Dryden Quotes

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

I have sort of made it my mission to be treated less as a foreigner, less as a guest.

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

I think people look at me and realize that I am definitely not in line to the throne. It feels very easy living in Great Britain. The world is a much smaller place than it used to be, it doesn't feel like a huge cultural difference living here.

Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

I actually grew up with people from all over the world. There wasn't enough of a difference to feel different from anybody else. Their grandmother hollered at me like my grandmother hollered at all the kids when anybody did anything wrong. And their parents did the same thing.

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.

I'm out here to represent the gingers, the gypsies, and the outcasts. Because I am all of the above, and I'm all about having a great time.

Unlike more traditional conquerors, we are not content merely to subdue others: We insist that they be like us.

The acquisition of Canada this year … will be a mere matter of marching and will give us experience for the attack on Halifax the next, and the final expulsion of England from the American continent.

There is room enough in this country for one great free people; but there's not room enough, under the same flag and the same laws, for two or three angry, suspicious, obstructive "nationalities.

Whether you [other Blacks] like America or not, you are here and you're not going anywhere .... Regard this place as your own.

Annexation of new land for America is injudicious in policy and wicked in fact.

It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

Our country's motto is e pluribus unum: out of many, we are one. Will we stay true to that motto?

The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

At Afropunk, everyone can be themselves, and I think that's beautiful.

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.