African Brazilian Connection

Famous quotes containing the words african, brazilian and/or connection:

    “The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.”
    —Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)

    “If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.”
    —Sting [Gordon Matthew Sumner] (b. 1951)

    “The smallest fact about the connection between character and hormonal balance offers more insight into the soul than a five-story idealistic system [of philosophy] does.”
    —Robert Musil (1880–1942)