Decolonial Studies Quotes

“This would mean nothing if a white person said this, but I tell you as a colored person - oneness is the greatest of paradox, where we must call out history for its horrors, but at the same time we must be big enough not to dwell in the past, otherwise the present will never bloom - we must let love simmer, without being consumed by contempt, otherwise atrocity will never end, only switch sides.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Beware of white people bearing gift.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“It's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed, backward eurocentric customs and conventions - you're welcome to keep your little legends, but don't go comparing your lampposts with the sun!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I repeat, it's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed, backward eurocentric customs and conventions - you're welcome to keep your little legends, but don't go comparing your lampposts with the sun!

I'm not superior to your aristocratic literature, I'm just from a different dimension altogether, a civilized dimension, a non-xenophobic dimension, a non-misogynist dimension, a non-settler, non-privileged, non-primate dimension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“If you want safe, go read those mushy european literature written by privileged white aristocrats, sheltered in romanticized make believe, living off the exploits from plantations - Naskar is not for those seeking a safe narrative, the point of Naskar is to knit your neurons human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“In English we call it Israel,
in Naskarian we call it Sanitarium.

In English we call it Britannia,
in Naskarian we call it Malaria.

In English we call it America,
in Naskarian we call it Terrorism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth