Famous quotes containing the words modern, native and/or american:
“Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead of persuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“I never see that man without feeling that he is one to become personally attachd to, for his combination of purest, heartiest tenderness, and native western form of manliness.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
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