" Ah yes

it took a long time
before I learned to think about man
as a human being
before I discovered his way of thinking
before I took this path
in this salutary direction
and speaking of man or contemplating him
I stopped asking such questions as
is he white or black
an anarchist or monarchist
fashionable or outmoded
ours or theirs
and I began to ask
what in him is of human being . . . "

― Ryszard Kapuściński , I Wrote Stone