Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.

I want to dive in the deepest trench, get locked in the darkest room, get lost in the biggest maze, travel longest to the furthest placebut keep my heart on the safest place...

Take advantage of losing your job by making it an opportunity to find a better one

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...

Little deeds of kindness little words of love Help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

I like the architecture of lingerie.

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.