Racism? But isnt it only a form of misanthropy? – Joseph Brodsky
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. – Joseph Brodsky

Racism? But isnt it only a form of misanthropy? – Joseph Brodsky
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. – Joseph Brodsky
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. – Joseph Brodsky
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. – Joseph Brodsky
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo. – Frantz Fanon
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at Gods great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
tho they come from the ends of the earth! – Rudyard Kipling