We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.
Edward SaidThe history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
Edward SaidSpeaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people.
Edward SaidCaptain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his leg out - to the ends of the Earth, no matter what happened. In the final scene of the novel, Captain Ahab is being borne out to sea, wrapped around the white whale with the rope of his own harpoon and going obviously to his death. It was a scene of almost suicidal finality.
Edward Said