Culture Quote by James Baldwin

“The situation, therefore, in the colonial countries, is tragic,” Cesaire continued. “Wherever colonization is a fact the indigenous culture begins to rot. And, among…

— James Baldwin

“However, many of our ancestors were both the colonizers and the colonized. We embody immensely conflicting cultures.”

— Dolores Delgado Bernal

“The colonialst as the custodian of the values of civilization and history, he accomplishes a mission; he has the immense merit of bringing light…

— Albert Memmi

“Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?”

— Ambeth Ocampo

“Colonialism was also justified by an elaborate ideology, embodied in everything from Kipling’s poetry and Stanley’s lectures to sermons and books about the shapes…

— Adam Hochschild

“This epic is a humble appeal to this great continent, Africa: May we reclaim our rich and resplendent narrative; our foundation, our voice, our…

— N.K . Read

“The power to narrate, or to block other narratives from forming and emerging, is very important to culture and imperialism, and constitutes one of…

— Edward Said

“inhabitants of countries that were colonized by the Europeans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries knew how profoundly distressing it was to watch a…

— Karen Armstrong

“Each new day on earth is a sacred moment.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes…

— Anonymous

“What rivets me to history is seeing / arts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, /…

— Adrienne Rich

“Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she…

— Tom Holland