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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

~Edmund White

Topics: Abstract America Arts Before Equal France French Idea Identity Individuals Law Left Must Opposed Politics Revolution Right Since Thrive Us

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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

~Edmund White

Topics: About America Appreciate Become Courses End Even Good Great Industry Learning People Readers Students Taking Teach Them Those Up Want Who Whole Write Writing

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In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'

~Edmund White

Topics: America Been Could Eisenhower Feminine Had Mystique Period Reactionary Retrospect See 1950S

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In America, music is more tightly categorized.

~Ednita Nazario

Topics: America Categorized More Music Tightly

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In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: America Discovered Indians Lived Natives Were

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I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: About Almost Almost Nothing Am America Anything Astonished Blind Come Deaf Each Each Time Frontiers Happen High Ignorance Knows Latin Latin America May Nothing Outside Percentage Population Quite Time Which World I Am

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The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Accustomed America Become Bombs Communities Every Explode Hiroshima Human Latin Latin America Making Over Poverty Secret Sound Suffering Teeth Three Without Year

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I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Above America Condemned Forgetfulness Intimate Land Latin Latin America Obsessed Past Remembering Writer

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When Seoul hosted the Games in 1988, it became a symbol of the Asian Tigers' ascent onto the world stage. In 1992, the Barcelona Olympics represented the unification of Europe. And when Rio plays host in 2016, it will reinforce the growing importance of Brazil and Latin America as a whole.

~Eduardo Paes

Topics: America Ascent Asian Barcelona Became Brazil Europe Games Growing Host Importance Latin Latin America Olympics Onto Plays Reinforce Rio Stage Symbol Tigers Unification Whole Will World World Stage

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Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

~Edward Ball

Topics: Africa America Different Mediterranean Rome Slavery Something Than West

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