Margo Jefferson Quotes

I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

I grew up in New York where there is such a different variety of people.

I lived in L.A. for four years, and basically, every corner you go to, or in a restaurant, you can't even find people from the same background.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

I moved to London, and it's a cliche to say that London is a melting pot, but it's true - I didn't stand out anymore.

I was raised in Montreal, which is very multicultural, very liberal. Then I moved to New York.

London's got less of a group identity because it's a melting pot and it's bigger. Whereas if you're from Glasgow or Newcastle or wherever, the group atmosphere is already there.

What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.

Of course, preserving the American dream has always meant creating opportunity for the most recently arrived Americans - those who have come here from other parts of the globe to work hard and build a new, better life.

Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.

One of the great things about making 'Reel History' was meeting British people from all over the class system. It made me realise that London is a different country.

The American identity is mind-bogglingly various.

New Brown America represents a whole generation of kids that are descendants of either immigrants or immigrants themselves, that are coming to America, enriching what it means to be an American.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It's got a bit busier since the '60s, but the more the merrier!

People from all over the world want to be in New York. This rather simple idea took me a long time to learn.

What makes America great is that we're all so different.

We seem to be in a really interesting time, a time of weird change and values and choices, and "Who are you really? Where's the revolution, and what does it mean to you? What are your choices?" To me, America is built on immigrants - everybody coming here and making America "Great," as Donald Trump would say. And that's what New York is, a melting pot for all these different races and religions. We all live on this little island together and somehow get on, some days. But most of the time it's proven to have worked, right? So I don't know what the f - k he's talking about.

If the United States is the melting pot of the world, you need entertainment - you need visuals that represent that.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.

I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.'

To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.