Postcolonial Feminism Quotes & Sayings

Although I believe identity politics '"produces limited but real empowerment for its participants," it is important to note that it contains significant problems: first, its essentialist tendency; second, its fixed _we-they_ binary position; third, its homogenization of diverse social oppression; fourth, its simplification of the complexity and paradox of being privileged and unprivileged; and fifth its ruling out of intersectional space of diverse forms of oppression in reality. — Namsoon Kang

It's a mistake and misconception to think that one has to state everything clearly and simply for the audience to be able to follow the character, and this is what is bringing American cinema down from its position in the classic golden period. There's this misapprehension that the audience is not smart. — Asghar Farhadi

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from. — Daphne Zuniga

Modernism and feminism are two broad axes on which Woolf criticism turns, and there are many other categories that reflect the range of positions available in literary criticism more generally, such as postmodernist, psychoanalytical,
historicist, materialist, postcolonial, and so on. — Jane Goldman

Seeking out people with different views, different perspectives, different ideas is often challenging, because it requires us to set aside judgment and open our minds. But we have to remind ourselves that to get beyond where we are, where I believe most of us are, we would all be be well served to choose our music carefully, to stop talking and listen to one another. — Susan Scott

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. — Ben Bradlee

But the thing about good ideas is that they grow other ideas. — Patrick Ness

The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our minds or our hearts for self-pity, self-loathing or unhappiness with the world in which we live. — David S. Baxter

I would love for the time to come where somebody can talk about me and not have to talk about Britney and Christina in the same sentence. — Jessica Simpson

By each book which i Have written... I play different roles...
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One I was playing the role of god! — Deyth Banger

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first. — Ellen Goodman

Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The city was in a panic, though a panic in Italy means most people still stand around coffee bars drinking espresso and Prosecco. — Magnus Flyte

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses. — Fred Rogers

I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress. — Kara Walker

I am stoked for this. This is my favorite part of the entire show. — CM Punk