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

"The Arab world is seen as a place of violence and irrationality."

"I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result."

"The idea of progress is often used to justify imperialism, to rationalize the domination of one culture over another."

"The power to narrate, or to block other narratives from forming and emerging, is very important to culture and imperialism, and constitutes one of the main connections between them."