"The struggle for decolonization is a struggle for human dignity, for human freedom, for human rights."

"The intellectual should be a voice for the voiceless, a champion of the oppressed."

"The concept of 'civilization' is often used as a tool of power, to differentiate between the 'civilized' and the 'uncivilized'."

"The intellectual's role is to be an amateur, someone who considers that what he does is not a way of making a living but is an activity that takes place during free time."

"Orientalism is a style of thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction made between 'the Orient' and (most of the time) 'the Occident.'"