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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes…
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
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Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist,…
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being…
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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost…
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,…
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
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Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,…
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC…
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Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a…
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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder…
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I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age,…
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I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder,…
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Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement,…
— Gregory Palamas
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We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost…
— Pat Conroy
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We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined…
— Pope Francis
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Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with…
— Edward Said
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My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's…
— Stephen King
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As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the…
— Robert Englund
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The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.
— Tony Parsons
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