The critic's role is not to provide answers but to question,... - Edward Said

"The critic's role is not to provide answers but to question, to make strange the familiar."

Edward Said Education

Literary Critic, Theorist Palestinian-American 1935–2003

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"The intellectual is always, or should be, an outsider"

"Orientalism is a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient"

"To be human is to be in a situation of conflict and challenge"

"Secular humanism is not a negation of religion; it is a form of religion"

"Education opens doors."

"Education opens doors to endless possibilities."

"I ain't got the education you got, bub."

"You can't put a price on history."