Edward Said — "The trouble with identity politics is that it is a prison."

"Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

"The struggle for Palestinian liberation is a struggle for human liberation."

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

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

"The representation of Islam in the West is often distorted, biased, and inaccurate."