Clouded Quote by Waziyatawin

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

— Barack Obama

I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we…

— Anonymous

Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

— Imran Khan

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside…

— Ahmed Ben Bella

I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You…

— Wole Soyinka

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

— Lupita Nyong'o

I think the fact that we don't really... that the world really doesn't acknowledge how bad and how detrimental colonialism was; that people don't…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves…

— Fred D'Aguiar

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving…

— Wangari Maathai

“Colonialism had its way with making us believe we were inadequate, if we mimicked the lifestyle and values it upheld, we were embraced with…

— Mala Naidoo