I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

I'll tell you what colonial experience is.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.
Ryszard Kapuscinski