Black Quote by Vik Muniz

I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become…

— Vik Muniz

For me, as an immigrant who didn't speak the language, when I would have struggles as a kid, my dad would say, 'Once you…

— Ilhan Omar

“The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up. That communication style becomes our normal way of dealing…

— Kristen Crockett

For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting only selective…

— Astrud Gilberto

In Brazil, I didn't have it easy growing up.

— Robinho

I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese…

— Paulo Freire

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go…

— Paulo Coelho

For much of my career I had no authentic political voice. I had been campaigning all over the country not to change the world…

— Bill Bradley

Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

— Rodrigo Santoro

When I lived in the U.S., I spoke Portuguese with my mother and grandmother, Spanish with my father and his family, and English with…

— Vicente Luque

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

— Joseph Brodsky

When I'm in Brazil, I'm not Brazilian at all; I am a gringo. And then when I'm in England, I'm not really English, but…

— Mia Goth