No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
Source: America and Cosmic Man, The Case Against Roots (1948).
-- Wyndham Lewis, (Nov 18 1882-1957), English author, painter; He founded the abstract Vorticist movement, which, in painting and literature before WW I, sought to relate art to the industrial process.