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When one learns something one first performs an act of will, because only by willing to learn can one learn.

— Edward Said

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I’m interested in the tension between what is represented and what isn’t represented, between the articulate and the silent.

As a way of maintaining relative intellectual independence, having the attitude of an amateur instead of a professional is a better course.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

Culture and Imperialism (1993)

I’ve always been interested in what gets left out.

There is no getting around authority and power, and no getting around the intellectual's relationship to them. How does the intellectual address authority: as a professional supplicant or as its unrewarded, amateurish conscience?

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