Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.
I was born in 1947, and my generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.
Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.
It's just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.
America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.
At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it.
The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.
Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
President Barack Obama read to a certain portion of white America as an unending attack on white Christian identity, centrality and cultural relevance. In their minds, he was seeking to end their right to bear arms and the right of conservatives to speak freely.
America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
After the separation of children from families seeking to join the United States was embraced as the official policy of our government, we should ask ourselves what story we will tell. President Trump's story is one of cruelty - that we may do something unfathomable to deter families from coming to America.
I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.
People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.
The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.
In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.
