Postcolonialism Literary Quotes & Sayings

You're smart, pretty, and you aren't a douche purse. — Gena Showalter

Why are you reading that?" Wren had asked when she noticed.
"What?"
"Something without a dragon or an elf on the cover."
"I'm branching out. — Rainbow Rowell

She was sensitive enough and intelligent enough to understand, and her literary education could not but have sharpened her perception of the evidence before her eyes: that in the absurd raffle-draw that apportioned the destinies of post-colonial African societies two people starting off even as identical twins in the morning might quiet easily find themselves in the evening one as President shitting on the heads of the people and the other a nightman carrying the people's shit in buckets on his head. — Chinua Achebe

To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners — Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

You never know with juries. I'd take a judge every time, unless of course I was guilty. — Kenneth Eade

As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action. — John Olver

No one remembering that old man.
Except, I just did, there — Ali Smith