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Substantial creative achievement demands not necessarily genius, but acumen, bent, persistence, time.

— Trinh T. Minh-ha Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989)

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Myths circulate like gifts without givers, and no myth teller (cares to) knows where they come from or who invented them.

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989)

Knowledge belongs to the one who succeeds in mastering a language.

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989)

Never does one open the discussion by coming right to the heart of the matter. For the heart of the matter is always somewhere else than where it is supposed to be.

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989)

Time and space are not something entirely exterior to oneself, something that one has, keeps, saves, wastes, or loses.

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989)

Questions are always loaded with the questioner’s prejudices.

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989)

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