Edward Said — "The intellectual must be a person of courage, a person of integrity, a person of…"

"The intellectual must be an exile, an outcast, a marginal figure."

"Knowledge is not innocent."

"The relationship between Occident and Orient is a relationship of power, of domination, of varying degrees of a complex hegemony."

"The Orient is not an inert fact of nature. It is not merely 'there,' as the Occident is. It is an idea that has a history and a tradition of thought, imagery, and vocabulary that have given it reality…"

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