Homi K. Bhabha famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or the diversity of cultures, but on the inscription and articulation of culture's hybridity. It is the inbetween space that carries the burden of the meaning of culture, and by exploring this Third Space, we may elude the politics of polarity and emerge as the others of our selves.
-- Homi K. Bhabha

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Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists? What are your rituals?' It's: 'Is your culture safe or not? Will it produce terrorists?'
-- Homi K. Bhabha

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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
Tomer: â€œWhat's this?â€ Cabinet: â€œWt's ths?â€ Wedge: â€œCabinet.â€ Tomer: â€œI know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.â€ Cabinet: â€œ...ts tlkngâ€ Janson: â€œOh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.â€ Tycho: â€œHe bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.â€ Hobbie: â€œNever bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.
The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.

Homi K. Bhabha famous quotes

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