quotes about Orientalism

last updated: November 28, 2023

I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other.
-- Edward Said

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Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much fierce argument and discussion to come. But whatever the outcome of ensuing criticisms or objections, The World Republic of Letters -- empire more than republic, as Casanova shows -- is likely to have the same sort of liberating impact at large as Said's Orientalism, with which it stands comparison.
-- Perry Anderson

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“Money donâ€™t change you, it changes the people around you.”
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.”
“The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'”
“A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.”

Source : William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books
“My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at. Photography's quite clear here [in the U.S.], it's very well-explained. My photography's perhaps not as well-explained.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.”
“We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.”

Source : "Artists Respond To ‘Her’ With Personal Reflections On Sex, Love And Relationships" by Sarah Barness, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2014.
“Only after Mom went missing did you realize that her stories were piled inside you, in endless stacks. Mom's everyday life used to go on in a repeating loop, without a break. Her everyday words, which you didn't think deeply about and sometimes dismissed as useless when she was with you, awoke in your heart, creating tidal waves.”

Source : Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.260, Vintage
“It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.”
“Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible...Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective.”