Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Kant on Race

"Humanity exists in its greatest perfection in the white race. The yellow Indians have a smaller amount of talent. The Negroes are lower and the lowest are the American peoples."

-Immanuel Kant, Physical Geography

Friday, March 5, 2010

Walcott on Love

"The traveller cannot love, since love is stasis and travel is motion."

By Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize winning poet from St. Lucia.