Edward Said — "The intellectual's greatest weapon is language, the power to articulate, to pers…"

"Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings."

"The West has a long history of misrepresenting the East, of constructing it as an exotic, irrational, and inferior other."

"The intellectual is someone who is always on the side of the oppressed, never on the side of the oppressor."

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

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