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

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Joseph Brodsky

#Race Quotes #Humans Quotes

“The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.”
“I was shooting lots of large format portraits then but I've since changed to digital, where you have so much more control. There are millions of things you can do with digital; you can be more spontaneous, and you're more in control of your color palette.”

Source : Source: aphotoeditor.com
“... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.”
“I think we have such a political cesspool in America right now.”
“You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?”

Source : Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London), 14 Dec. 1988
“You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.”
“Subject matter comes to you, you don't go to it... Although I shoot extemporaneously a lot of the time, I prefer to have half a dozen shots in my mind. Probably I have seen them many times under different conditions and I have been thinking about them. The moment shall come when I shall go back to them and make the photographs.”
“This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the most learned and cultured poets, authors, musicians, and architects of the time - relying solely on his remarkable memory during conversations with them.”

Source : Indu Sundaresan (2012). “The Twentieth Wife”, p.131, HarperCollins Publishers India

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