"The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens."

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Source : Vijay Prashad (2001). “Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity”

Vijay Prashad

#Tolerance Quotes #Dominance Quotes #Culture Quotes

“A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.”
“A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.”
“The line between seduction and prostitution is very blurred, and deep down, everyone knows it.”

Source : Virginie Despentes (2010). “King Kong Theory”, p.59, Profile Books
“Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!”
“To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.”
“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.”

Source : "Genius declared: Wilde tops the wit list" by Aidan Jones, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2007.
“I need to have a cheesesteak.”
“A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.”

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