Colonization And Imperialism Quotes & Sayings

So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers. — Edward Burns

Which was one reason why Revolt of the Zombie Strippers was being shot in Gallup and not in a warehouse in Van Nuys. — Janet Evanovich

Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves? — Lena Williams

I would probably never have learned to cook. — Elizabeth David

The Canadian voice is still too rustic. — Charles Olson

I hid the homework, stayed in the bathroom for the longest time trying to cut class - I was a wreck as a kid. — Jordan Francis

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. — Rumi

Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects. — W. J. T. Mitchell

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process. — Hillary Clinton

A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake. — Elinor Glyn

And being alone made me want to talk to someone my own age. Someone who understood that using the "f" word wasn't a measure of my lack of imagination. Sometimes using that word just made me feel free. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Listen carnales listen to the hymn of it, the lie of it, the prayer of it, the voices singing our names: listen it's our story, it's our song, — Luis Alberto Urrea

She could feel it brimming on her lips, that superstar smile, the bow shape, the teeth long and solid tombstones. — Aimee Bender

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love. — Oscar Wilde

The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the hope of a future national culture. In the sphere of psycho-affective equilibrium it is responsible for an important change in the native. Perhaps we haven't sufficiently demonstrated that colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures, and destroys it. This work of devaluing pre-colonial history takes on a dialectical significance today. — Frantz Fanon

I feel privileged that people are looking up to me, and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence. — Lupita Nyong'o