"The intellectual's role is to be a gadfly, to sting the conscience of society, to provoke thought and debate."

"The role of the intellectual is to disturb the status quo, to challenge established truths, to question authority."

"All knowledge is political."

"Imperialism is an act of geographical violence through which virtually every space in the world is surveyed, charted, and codified."

"All cultures are hybrid, mixed, heterogeneous, extraordinarily differentiated, and unmonolithic."