Quotes About Postcolonialism

#1. Postcolonialism is the invention of rich Indian guys who wanted to make a good career in the west by playing on the guilt of white liberals

Slavoj Zizek

#2. A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals
that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.

Zadie Smith

#3. From the outset, people's experiences of desire and rage, memory and power, community and revolt are inflected and mediated by the institutions through which they find their meaning - and which they, in turn, transform.

Anne McClintock

#4. Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#5. Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.

Lauren Bacall

#6. And the sins of the Eastern father shall be visited upon the Western sons. Often taking their time, stored up in the genes like baldness or testicular carcinoma, but sometimes on the very same day.

Zadie Smith

#7. understood more clearly in the light of the Gita teaching the implication of the word 'trustee'.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while.

Linda Ronstadt

#9. Cleverness have no meanings until you find the stupidity that teach you.

Lena Hussain

#10. The Federal Reserve cannot solve all the economy's problems on its own.

Ben Bernanke

#11. You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once - there has to be a limit

Edward W. Said

#12. Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

Jesse Ventura

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

Lena Hussain

#14. You didn't care about the .... the name.'
'Not the name.'. He led my gaze, unfaltering, unblinking. 'Just the girl.

Catherine Doyle

#15. It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

Jodi Picoult