Brazil is located on the southern tears of the Americas
Brazil is a jungle with snakes who eat cakes
Brazil speaks Lebanese, Portuguese, Japanese, Guarnaríse, Tupiese, Inglese
Brazil is an adulterating medley of intoxicated syncopations
Brazil has no relationship with itself because it has a relation only to itself
Brazil lays its cool hands on your hot head
Brazil was colonized by Indians who turned the Portuguese into natives
Brazil’s Tolstoy is now doing tricks in a favela
Brazil is a land of palms and psalms
Brazil is the model of a model
Brazil is a charm bracelet that has become the necklace of the continent: São Paulo more European than St. Paul, Brazillia more bureaucratic than Geneva, Rio more alluring than Boca
“They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil”
In Brazil, the cuckoo sings “macaw, macaw, macaw”
Brazil is private property of no man’s God and no woman’s Fury
The patron saint of Brazil is its dreams, just as is its Devil
Brazil is a carioca not a polka
Brazil is Carmen Miranda’s Tutti Frutti hats, Caetano Veloso’s all-weather tropicalismo, Bebel Gilberto’s number on the charts.
Brazil is the Ellis and Tom “Waters of March” International Airport and Spa
Brazil is caipirinha with feijoada (caipira with fedora)
Brazil is home of the cassava or tapioca, what you call yuca, or mandioca or aipim or moogo or macaxeira or singkong or tugi or balinghoy or manioc
Brazil is the black mask of the PCC inscribed with the words traitor, betrayer
Brazil is 186 million stories, 186,000 poems, but only these definitions
Put your stocks in Brazil and your bonds in China, or is it the other way around?
Brazil is a figment of the imagination of the Amazon
If Pelé is poet laureate of Brazil, without ever writing a word, then Ronaldo Gaúcho is the Nijinsky, without ever having set foot in the Ballet Russe
Brazil is not emerging it’s proliferating
The official religion of Brazil is not just samba but macumba and umbanda, tarantella and churrasco
Candomblé is the Brazil wood of world philosophy
Brazil is Fred & Ginger Flying Down to Rio with Dolores Del Rio
Under the veneer of its vivacity, Brazil is violent, a vile viper playing a violet viola.
In Brazil, anything goes for a chance, for a price, for a piece, for a dance, for a fight, for a night; jeitinho brasileiro is born free but everywhere in chains
Brazil’s face never shows its heart even when they are identical
Brazil stars Bob Hoskins, Jonathan Pryce, and Robert DeNiro
Brazil was written by Terry Gilliam and Tom Stoppard
Brazil is concrete and syncretic
Brazil is impenetrable and forgiving
Brazil is cannibalizing and carnivallizing
Brazil is a baroque barcarolle with a bossa nova beat
Brazil’s Lula is a little loco, but not as loco as Lucy
On Ipanema beach, at the very moment when dusk turns to night, you can hear Orpheus singing for Eurydice; he sings an elegy called Brazil
In Brazil, the real is the only currency that counts