Melting Pot Quotes

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The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

The United Nations is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together; and it can be the only place where there can be a melting pot.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.

Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive to our shores wanting to keep their culture and forcing our acceptance.

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

Everyone should be proud of who they are and where they come from because America is a big melting pot of diverse ethnicities. It's great to be part of this wonderful country.

America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.

In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

Being a melting pot is what I think is great about being American, and also that we get to do something that other people don't get to do, we get to be a hyphenate. That's a good thing.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.

I find it strange that there isn't more of a melting pot of language within the pop charts. I feel it becomes really two dimensional when everything's in English.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.

I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It’s basically a mini country unto itself.

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people.

Although the film industry is a very unique melting pot of creative and business types, both for the good and the bad, I love being able to wake up everyday to play.

We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.

My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot.

Hollywood is a symbol of global movies, it's not just American movies. It's become a platform and a melting pot; it's for all the talents and capital from all over the globe.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

It’s almost like that’s the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a Negro for four years.