Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
All the way there, we were seeing looters -- people with big screen TVs ... a guy had two Oriental rugs,
I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other.
Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.
Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.
He's always been an oriental garden admirer. We used part of the money then to replace the old bridge that used to be there.
Transcending stereotypes was difficult, ... Often people don't want to know what was true. They want to know what is attractive. The fact of the matter is, no one in the mid-19th century here was using Oriental rugs; they were using wall-to-wall carpet.
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.
The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision.