I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there -buried under the 50, 000 thoughtsthe average person thinks every day

Only the thinking man lives his life the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

The sun still shines.