Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

We used to have a view that to really be a good Australian, to love Australia, you almost had to cut your links with the country of origin. But I don’t think that was right and it never was right.

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

My son will be an American, but I remain French.

I just grew up in the States, so I feel like I identify more with the American culture.

People all over the world know me as an Indian artist. I could have chosen any other country and wouldn't have had to go through problems claiming my citizenship. But it is India where my heart is and has always been.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.

I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian.

I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

It is a complex fate being an American.

These natives prefer the name of Americans to that of Creoles, since the peace of Versailles, and particularly since 1789, one often hears them say with pride: “I am not a Spaniard, I am an American.”

I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one.

I mean, Turkey is my country. You know, it's my flag. That is where we're raised... My family is born there. So that's why, like, it's tough to see that... your country don't want you.

I don't necessarily feel like I'm American. I wouldn't know what that feels like.

I believe my soul isn't entirely German because my home is so disorderly.

I am so proud to be Ukrainian, and I'm also so proud to be an American.