Quotes About Decolonization

#1. I'm pissed because I already know I'll be going with him.

Colleen Hoover

#2. If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Jeannette Walls

#3. decolonization requires acknowledging. that your needs and desires should never come at the expense of another's life energy. it is being honest that you have been spoiled by a machine that is not feeding you freedom but feeding you the milk of pain.

Nayyirah Waheed

#4. There is no magic herb that makes a brave man. Courage is knowing that what you do is necessary. Don't doubt yourself, Shadow. There is more valor in your heart than you realize.

Elizabeth Alder

#5. Our minds must be as ready to move as capital is, to trace its paths and to imagine alternative destinations.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

#6. You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

Lillie Langtry

#7. We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue.

Evo Morales

#8. Life is so sweet even though it is full of lies and half truths...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#9. Perhaps the reasons for a man to leave his life were too obvious for him to name.

Karen Thompson Walker

#10. Just as Hitler had predicted, it was rival empires more than indigenous nationalists who propelled the process of decolonization forward.

Niall Ferguson

#11. If this is the only life, then why I'm not just doing everything I want to do.

James Franco

#12. Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.

Bell Hooks

#13. I really, really don't think that, outside of maybe some pink wigs, [that] there's anything that separates me from every other woman in America.

Nicki Minaj

#14. Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.

Loretta Napoleoni

#15. He told me all the time as a child that it's okay to think of myself as a glow stick because you have to break them to make them shine.

Toni Aleo

#16. National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

Frantz Fanon

#17. Magic requires will, but words shape will, turn it, direct it, reflect it from one target to another.

Brent Weeks

#18. Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Jean Baudrillard

#19. We outrank the Agency here in the homeland. If they want a dick fight, we'll give them one.

Pamela Clare

#20. They have little in common, save for their geography, and the fact that each has a version of this city straddling this river on this island country, and in each, that city is called London.

Victoria Schwab

#21. Power is something that is out of term.

Lena Hussain

#22. It was too soon. And now, Samantha Connor had become tangled into

Lacey Silks