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Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.

~Dinaw Mengestu

Topics: Also Always American Because Been City Draw Either Fiction First First One Had Landscape Midwest Nonfiction Perhaps Quintessential Remember Seemingly Truly Wanted I Can

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I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

~Dinaw Mengestu

Topics: According African American Immigrant Needs Occasionally Writer

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I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

~Dinaw Mengestu

Topics: American Born Educated Ethiopia More Raised Tried I Tried I Was Raised I Was Born

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What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires - committed to looting and conquest - have done. So that's American exceptionalism: an exceptionalism based on noble ideas, ideas that it holds itself to even when it falls short of them.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: Act American Based Better Committed Conquest Doctrine Does Done Empires Empower Even Falls Holds Ideas Itself More Noble Nothing Short States Than Them Traditional United United States

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I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: About American Being Capitalism Christian Devout Enterprise Fascinated Free Free Markets Heritage Institute Intellectually Issues Like Markets Michael Morality Neighbor Philosopher Possible Roots Scholar Theologian Washington Who Without Written

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I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: Accent American American Accent Americanized Foreign Me Wife

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There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: About American American Public Being Block Cases Covered Decide Elements Even Hunger Information Media Obama Protective Public Rather Real Sense Some Story Than Withheld Would

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O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: America American Anti-American Countries Desire Fact Footprint In Fact Income Knock Makes Obama Off Other Other Countries Pedestal Shrink Then World You

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Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: Abroad American Country Own Problem Standing Standing Up United Up Were Would

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Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: American Democracy Effort Everywhere Iraq Legitimate Part Somewhere

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