Awa Thiam Quotes

I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,
I had a sound colonial education,
I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,
and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.

Well – yes – no. I mean, nowhere in particular.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

A news item from Dhaka says that "A radical Muslim priest has offered love and marriage to Bangladesh's most controversial feminist writer, Taslima Nasreen, in order to bring her to the faith". "She will be my third wife," said Mr. Rahim Baksh, an Islamic cleric in Cox's Bazar town in southeastern Bangladesh.

The theologian ... will be engaged where nations, social classes, people struggle to free themselves from domination and oppression by other nations, classes, and people.

[https://archive.org/stream/sextusempiricusa17556gut/17556.txt Full text of Pyrrhonic Sketches online]

Putting Sachin Tendulkar's latest feat in a strictly cricketing context would not be fair to the sportsman. His achievements in the world of cricket need to be seen on a par with efforts in any other field - science, art, literature, etc - to push the frontiers of human excellence.

By relating an ancient instance of white colonization in a dark subcontinent, it confirmed the colonial worldview.

There shall be freedom of speech and debate in parliament and that freedom shall not be impeached or questioned in any Court or place out of parliament " [https://3news.com/news/full-text-speech-delivered-by-speaker-bagbin-at-november-6-press-conference/]

I'm a feminist. I believe that everyone should be treated the same, including race and sexuality.

[http://artofwar.thetao.info/japan/gorinsho.htm Complete text (in Japanese)]

[http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/mzb/mzb04.htm The Hsin Hsin Ming (Verses on the Faith Mind) translated by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki]

Apart from his sophistical defence of Spanish colonial policy, Acosta deserves high praise as an acute and diligent observer whose numerous new and valuable data are set forth in a vivid style.

[https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000196/files/975_15935.html Japanese original text] of Hōjōki on Aozora Bunko

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.

[http://etext.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv2-70 Extended discourse in Dictionary of the History of Ideas]