Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

"The question of ethics cannot be separated from politics."

"Education should cultivate the ability to think differently."

"The archive reveals and conceals in equal measure."

"We must attend to the singularity of each situation."

"Language is both enabling and constraining."

"The postcolonial intellectual carries a peculiar burden."

"We cannot represent others, but we are responsible for our representations."

"The other escapes all efforts at totalization."

"Literature teaches us to be responsive to difference."

"The global is always mediated through the particular."

"We must learn to think with those we disagree with."

"The archive is a site of struggle and interpretation."

"Knowledge is a form of power that requires constant scrutiny."

"We are responsible for what we do with language."

"The question of subjectivity is always a political question."

"We must remain open to the possibility of being changed by the other."

"The text offers us no final answers but new questions."

"We cannot think without concepts, but we must think against them."

"The responsibility to teach is a responsibility to the future."

"We must learn to listen to those we usually silence."

"The other calls us to account for ourselves."

"History is not behind us but within us."

"We must persistently ask: who gets to speak and who is silenced?"

"Literature creates space for those excluded from representation."

"The global South is not a victim but a complex actor."

"We are all involved in the production of knowledge and power."

"The question of difference cannot be resolved but only managed."

"We must learn to be responsible for what we cannot know."

"The archive teaches us that history is contested and incomplete."

"We cannot escape our implication in power relations."