Famous quotes containing the words african, americans and/or lived:
“Kitsch ... is one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of trashy, sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the cliché in discourse.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualitiesa sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)
“We turned to other things.
I havent any memory have you?
Of ever coming to the place again
To see if the birds lived the first night through.
And so at last to learn to use their wings.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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