Postcolonial Quotes

#1. That such people could accomodate conflicting worldly labels... was a talent of postcolonial life, evidence of adaptation by people who have had many different categories foisted on them by outsiders.

Eliza Griswold

#2. Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial

Henry Kissinger

#3. Killing Tutsis was a political tradition in postcolonial Rwanda; it brought people together.

Philip Gourevitch

#4. So how do we get from there to a pattern of experience that can stand for the whole of postcolonial Latin America? Ah, our para dox again. The solution, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves.

Thomas C. Foster

#5. The formation of a diaspora could be articulated as the quintessential journey into becoming; a process marked by incessant regoupings, recreations, and reiteration. Together these stressed actions strive to open up new spaces of discursive and performative postcolonial consciousness.

Okwui Enwezor

#6. If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts;
Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void

Deanne Williams

#7. Modernism and feminism are two broad axes on which Woolf criticism turns, and there are many other categories that reflect the range of positions available in literary criticism more generally, such as postmodernist, psychoanalytical,
historicist, materialist, postcolonial, and so on.

Jane Goldman

#8. Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

Pankaj Mishra

#9. The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Sheryl Sandberg

#11. He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

Haile Gebrselassie

#12. As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

Edward Abbey

#13. The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Carl Reiner

#14. Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.

Daniel Noonan

#15. While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

Oliver Goldsmith

#16. Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

Jake Bugg

#17. If you want the nightmares to go away, you have to live. That's the only way.

Richelle Mead

#18. Every reporter who came up in legacy media can tell you about a come-to-Jesus moment when an editor put them up against a wall and tattooed a message deep into their skull: show respect for the fundamentals of the craft, or you would not soon be part of it.

Mary Karr

#19. If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

Bill Vaughan