Top 22 American Experience Quotes

Words matter. These are the best American Experience Quotes from famous people such as Matt Gaetz, Bill Frist, Salim Akil, Margot Lee Shetterly, Greg Graffin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who

History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who deny the science of climate change. Similarly, those Democrats who would use climate change as a basis to regulate out of existence the American experience will face the harsh reality that their ideas will fail.
Matt Gaetz
The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
Bill Frist
If anyone sees anything in ‘Black Lightning’ that seems foreign to them, then they haven’t been paying attention. This is a uniquely American experience.
Salim Akil
As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American experience, it’s probably even more important for black people to have that expanded view.
Margot Lee Shetterly
I grew up playing football since the day I could walk; some of my greatest memories of childhood are playing touch football in all kinds of weather with my best friends. That’s a part of the American experience that no corporation can destroy.
Greg Graffin
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that’s totally alien to it.
K’naan
There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American experience is the American experience.
Glenn Ligon
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It’s a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
Herbie Hancock
I’ve made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They’re very universal stories I’ve told – every movie I’ve done.
Malcolm D. Lee
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
Ayad Akhtar
My first American experience was in the harbor of New York City when I saw that amazing big, tall lady. I remember thinking, ‘Oh my goodness, a lady runs this country.’
Rita Moreno
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
Michael Bloomberg
It’s part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential of being shot, at any time, by a semiautomatic weapon as we try to go about the most boring, precious, asinine aspects of our daily lives.
Monica Hesse
Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.
Jeb Bush
It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write ‘the Great American Novel,’ that great white whale of American fiction that would encompass all the American experience in one great book.
Michael Korda
The magic of the American experience is that we’ve upheld the rule of law for everybody, everybody treated equally beneath the law.
Paul Gosar
We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.
Marco Rubio
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.
Henry Louis Gates
I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
Wadada Leo Smith
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
Ai Weiwei
The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It’s all an online business now, and that’s, you know – the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we’re very reluctant to see go away.
Jonathan Galassi
The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.
Opal Tometi