America is the place where the way I want to be collides with the way I am and the way I have been.

We are a nation conceived in a desire to broker compromise between ideals and realities.

America is where hypocrisy comes to light and values are tested against one another.

America is a never right, because America never ceases to consider the contradictions of its actions and its beliefs.

America is where my best self and my base self wrestle.