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Joseph Brodsky

"Who included me among the ranks of the human race?"

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"Who included me among the ranks of the human race?"

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"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."

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"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"

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"Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the Ku Klux Klans are organized. I believe with George Schuyler that the only really feasible way to improve the general situation of the American Negro is to convince more and more whites that he is, as men go in this world, a decent fellow, and that amicable living with him is not only possible but desirable. Every threat of mass political pressure, every appeal to political mountebanks, only alarms the white brother, and so postpones the day of reasonable justice."

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"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"

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"It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said."

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"The Indian race are waiting and praying."

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"It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism."

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"I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white."

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"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them."

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"With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go."

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"For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance."
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"Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose."
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"How delightful to find a friend in everyone."
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"This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising."
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"For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey."
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"Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair."
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"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."
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"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."
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"Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse."
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"It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot."
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