Cultural Integration Quotes

“While many of us pursue comfort through upgraded plane tickets, luxurious hotels, and fine dining experiences, authentic comfort runs deeper. It encompasses how we carry ourselves, express our unique identities, and navigate the complex web of culture and fashion in diverse destinations.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

“She felt the disorienting but familiar beginnings of the realization that she was unprepared to do something that was simple and obvious for everyone else, so obvious that no one would imagine they needed to explain it, so obvious that she would not be able to disguise what she didn't know once she started.”
― Kay Chronister, The Bog Wife

“I’m sorry, I cannot live a single cultural, single lingual, single scriptural existence. I want all the cultures and languages, I want all the scriptures and sciences.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Every community is my home.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Carrying cosmos in my chest, every community is my home.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Every culture is my culture, every country is my country.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“I'll never force you to be inclusive,
if you do harm, I'll restrain you,
but I'll never resort to weapons -
moreover, I'll never kill for inclusion,

I'll simply beg, on my knees,
I'll beg till I drop dead -
because I have nothing to lose,
no reputation, no image, no class.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Larger than tribe, larger than time, I am Detonation of The First Multicultural Civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Lack of inclusivity in society is not a bug, it's a feature of western eurocentric education.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“You don’t enter a culture, you disappear into it, be annihilated for others, and you come to life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“There's divinity in diversity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Tierra Carta (Charter of Earth, S2498)

Nationality and religion are like blood groups,
it has no relation to human capacity and character,
despite the superstitions and conspiracy theories;
morons are found in every corner of the world,
just like mavericks are found in every corner.

The only difference between blood groups
and nationality is that, blood groups are
a fundamental factor of medical treatment,
whereas nationality and religion are
fleeting vestiges of an adolescent species.

I opened my eyes and couldn't find a single precedent
of post-national, post-religion, post-lingual,
post-cultural existence, so I became the precedent.

My roots go deep down to the core of earth,
spread across the bones and marrow of the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“My brain is the planet’s largest organic manufacturing plant of multiculturalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“When The Pillar Gets Weary (Dervish Sonnet 2776)

I don't utter a single word that
I wouldn't want to become part of the canon,
but person can't live on discipline alone,
so, having no lover to take my armor off for,
I found a different way to vent my vulnerability -

in the mainstream work I'm a pillar of strength,
while turkish is quite literally my love language -
english is the language where my brain feels at home,
turkish is the language where my heart finds rest -

none my mothertongue, yet both are my first language,
with spanish as my occasional substitute for english.

English is not my mothertongue,
english is my brother tongue -
spanish is not my mothertongue,
spanish is my cousin tongue -
turkish is not my mothertongue,
turkish is my lover tongue.

My territory is planet earth -
humanity, my civilization.
Figure what I didn't mention,
you'll learn the law of assimilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I don't utter a single word that I wouldn't want to become part of the canon, but person can't live on discipline alone, so, having no lover to take my armor off for, I found a different way to vent my vulnerability - in the mainstream work I'm a pillar of strength, while turkish is quite literally my love language - english is the language where my brain feels at home, turkish is the language where my heart finds rest.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Call it Neuroscience, call it theology,
call it Sufism, sociology, or Advaita -
I am the ocean that permeates all rivers,
call it sonnet or call it Naskaristana.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Naskargen (Sonnet 3000)

It all started with a promise -
Liberty is my religion, Humans are my God;
what took to paper as a penniless dream,
ignited the planet with culture of integration.

Journey of civilization begins with
one person rejecting an outdated tradition,
evolution of apes to human begins with
one person disposing of their flag in a museum.

Divinity of the past was based in sky-fiction,
divinity of the present must be rooted in life;
science of the robots revolves around metal,
science of the humans must center around mind.

Faith fixated on no prophecy, no propaganda,
I entrust my promise upon you,
my promise, my rebellion, my madness -
if there is not a single Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Oneness is my legacy, pages are just vessel.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“No festival is sin for no one, there is no culture where we do not belong.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I'm the memory before divisions crept in.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Divide and rule, marks the animal,
unite and integrate, makes humankind.
We are stardust come alive -
unbent, unflinching, borderless mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Blood doesn't make us human, skin doesn't make us human, culture doesn't make us human, we're only human when the suffering of another makes us forget our color, culture, and the entire circus of animal behavior.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“When The Dervish Burns
(Naskaristana 2791-2794)

You cannot have a brain,
and complacent too.
You cannot have backbone,
and conformist too.

You cannot have heart,
and host prejudice too.
You cannot be human,
and popular too.

You cannot have a self,
and not burn it.
You cannot have a life,
and not sacrifice it.

You cannot have eyes,
and not see through lies.
You cannot have ears,
and not hear the tears.

You cannot have arms,
and not stretch in aid.
You cannot have feet,
and not burn the chains.

You cannot have veins,
and not boil at cruelty.
You cannot have nerves,
and not ignite at injustice.

You cannot have government,
and homelessness too.
You cannot have innovation,
and fail accessibility too.

You cannot aim for the stars,
while failing life on earth.
You have zero right to luxury,
while children suffer and starve.

You cannot have godmen,
and claim to know the truth.
You cannot be fundamentalist,
and have faith too.

You cannot have faith,
and fail tolerance.
You cannot have science,
and fail at service.

You cannot have culture,
and fail integration.
You cannot have internet,
and fail common sense.

You cannot have a society,
and fail empathy.
You cannot have language,
and fail understanding.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You're welcome to burn all my verses, still you cannot dampen the spark of oneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I switch languages like radio, I switch cultures like seasons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“If you tie Naskar to a nation, you've failed the Naskar mission.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Every country needs just one person
to embody the best of humanity -
but I couldn't wait to find those people,
so I chose to be that person
from every culture and every country,

that's why I made these languages,
these cultures, these soils, my own,
no native, no foreign, it's all my own -

I let their air fill my lungs,
their passions permeate my veins,
their tears galvanize my heart,
their dreams resurrect my brain -

which is why, some ask for water, some ask pani -
somewhere I'm scientist, somewhere I'm sufi.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I burnt my life as proof that Naskar is human, yet apes continue to google, what religion is Naskar, what nationality is Naskar!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I'm known by many names - Hometown Human, Vijdansaadet, Divine Refugee or Abigitano - all names aim at one mind - Mujize Insan, Kral Fakir, Visvavictor or Mental por El Mundo.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“My mission is not to be a success story, I live as the specimen of divisionless humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock