So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there but I'd love to experience working there.

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

I'm afraid based on my own experience that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

If money education and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege as much equality as they bring to any American citizen then they are to me a curse and not a blessing.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

Martin Luther King Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag.