Edward Said Quotes

"Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric."
- Edward Said
(Related: Time)

"Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics."
- Edward Said
(Related: Life, Politics, Travel, War, Beginning, English, June)