| We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents. . . . We tacitly abandon ourselves to the notion that our United States have been fashion'd from the British Islands only . . . which is a very great mistake. —Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) "The Spanish Element in Our Nationality" (1883)— | |||
| Walt Whitman United States Journalist; Poet; | May 31, 1819 Gemini : Earth Rabbit American; History; | ![]() ![]() | |
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