Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home.

Western education remains a fetish of the colonial past.

The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all.

The English word 'creativity' is derived from the Roman-Latin creo - to create. It is inextricably linked to the Western notion of a creator - a divine intervention and violent disrupter.

The emptiness of your pocket is not a recipe for you to discount the value of your passion!

I'd kiss you if I could, " I whispered. Jared's breath caressed my skin. "I have other shirts." I smiled and kissed him.

No!You cant get this close to me and then push me away.

The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

Learn to leave things. If you don't have an interest in something, you don't need even to transcend it!

Winning and losing is a part of democracy.

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.

I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely