Decolonial Studies Quotes

“Zionism is racism - Colonialism is cannibalism - Nationalism is terrorism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Till a “white man” climbs the Everest, do the Himalayas really exist!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“How to Cure Racism
(Indigenous Sonnet 3218)

If you want to tackle racism
after the damage has been done,
focus on race relations,
but if you want to cure
the system that produces racism,
focus on decolonial studies for children,
make decolonial studies mandatory part
of the curriculum from middle school.

All of us who are mentally decolonized,
white and colored alike, became so
out of our own personal inquisitiveness,
not as a result of institutional schooling,
because the institutions themselves haven't
outgrown their endemic eurocentric whitewash
yet, regardless of how proficient they are in
maths and biology and physics and engineering.

It's easier to dissect the brain
than it is to behave human -
studying for grades you become good employees,
reading for pleasure you change the world.

Proficiency in maths, biology, physics,
and engineering count for nothing,
if the hands wielding them
haven't grown into human yet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“History of the west is history of plagiarism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“There is nothing uglier than a colored mouth with a colonial voice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“White is not a color, white is a mentality, which affects everybody, particularly in a world which is whitewashed from head to toe, from future to the past, from pulpit to the parliament, from belief to disbelief.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“White is not a color, white is a mentality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be educated until you're de-europeanized, you cannot be human until you're unwhitewashed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be human until you're unwhitewashed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Unzionized (Sonnet 2948)

You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized,
you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized,

you cannot be educated until you're de-europeanized,
you cannot be human until you're unwhitewashed.

Don't leave the sanitarium till you no longer
confuse the voices in your head as divine decree,
and the blood in your veins as god's own bloodline.

Don't leave therapy until you're unbritannized,
don't quit rehab until you're denazified,
don't go off the meds until you're unzionized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I don't consider any white man's opinion worthy of respect until they've proven that they're on the side of humanity, not their thieving ancestors’ - and this applies not just to the white man of faith, but also the white man of reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The Unholy Trinity (Sonnet 3109)

You don't need to cook up scandals to smear me,
I can give you all the real scandals you want,
hot out of the Naskar pen, go enjoy:

Churchill was a big fat cannibal,
Columbus was a wanted terrorist -

as far as historic records are concerned,
the religion of violence is christianity,
the government of violence is america,
the kingdom of violence is britain -

every culture has its skeletons,
but the vatican, america, and britain,
these three are the unholy trinity of
planet earth, built on a mountain of skeletons,
as opposed to my brother's sermon on the mount.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Every culture has its skeletons, but the vatican, america, and britain, these three are the unholy trinity of planet earth, built on a mountain of skeletons, as opposed to my brother's sermon on the mount.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“As far as historic records are concerned,
the religion of violence is christianity,
the government of violence is america,
the kingdom of violence is britain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Jewish trauma gets special treatment because of its colonial propaganda value, while "extinction level" Indigenous Holocausts are swept under the carpet, never to become mainstream history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Naskar DSM of Earth Disorders (Sonnet 3134)

Racism is a developmental disorder,
Colonialism is an eating disorder,
Nationalism is paranoid schizophrenia.

Misogyny is a vertebral dysfunction,
Transphobia is oxygen deficiency,
White privilege is narcissistic personality disorder.

Islamophobia is a cardiac disorder,
Zionism is a brain disorder.
I prescribe, don't isolate them,
make it unbearably friendly for them
to even go grocery shopping -
smile, offer them a flower,
and a get well card.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Diary of A Mad Polyglot
(Sonnet 3177-3178)

If you want to find out
if a language is beautiful,
don't listen to how the
pompous aristocrats speak,

listen to how ordinary people
on the streets speak -

that's why turkish is painfully romantic,
french is amorous, castellano is passionate,
german is disciplined, arabic is enigmatic,
persian is divinely mad, urdu is earthy,
whereas english is just useful,
mostly transactional.

English is the universal second language
of planet earth, nothing more - it's primarily
a language of convenience, not culture -
and this comes from a person who
once adopted the language out of love,
until he got disillusioned by history.

If left to me, I'd like to spend the rest
of my life writing only in turkish and spanish,
turkish as main canon, and spanish as complementary,

but that wouldn't do much for my mission on earth,
hence english is the main canon,
and turkish and spanish are supplementary.

But down boy, don't count it as a white victory yet!
Because mine is Naskarian English, not white english,
and it'll take many a restless nights to distinguish the two.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“English is the universal second language of planet earth, nothing more - it's primarily a language of convenience, not culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“If a white person is hyper-productive, he's a genius. If a colored person is hyper-productive, he's a fraud.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Till White Man Verifies (Sonnet 3188)

If a "white man" cannot verify it,
is it really rational!
If a "white man" cannot verify it,
is it really poetry!

If a "white man" cannot verify it,
is it really philosophy!
If a "white man" cannot verify it,
is it really theology!

If a "white man" has no need for religion,
is there really any need for religion!
Once a "white man" declares his "true religion",
isn't it proof that all others are false!

Till a "white man" climbs the Everest,
do the Himalayas really exist!
If a "white man" cannot recognize genocide
outside one little white-friendly holocaust
narrative, did the genocides really happen!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The first duty of every white person is to make amends, not out of guilt, but out of human responsibility - in fact, the will of reparation is the first sign that a white person is becoming human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Either your history is indigenous centered or your history is meticulously crafted monkey mythology, crafted by cunning monkeys, to manufacture docile sheep, never to make them realize, that the hunters are the transgressors, while the world belongs to the lions first. Sure, the world belongs to all, but not until, every stolen dignity, stolen honor, stolen dream, stolen childhood, motherhood, parenthood, are made amends for first, not monetarily but mentally.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“If you want to tackle racism after the damage has been done, focus on race relations, but if you want to cure the system that produces racism, focus on decolonial studies for children.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“If you want to cure racism, make decolonial studies mandatory part of the curriculum from middle school.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“When Erasure is Religion, Mutiny is Right
(Sonnet 3226/ Song 6)

Pack your brain that does no good,
and pack your hands that cannot help;
boot the chiefs that start a war,
and boot the bros that sell the hate.

Pack your kings that loot the world,
and pack your churches stood on bones,
stole the land then sold the skies,
manufactured famine, fortune poured.

Now go burn white maps and syllabus,
now go break your trance of west,
scrub the whitewash, face the history,
grow the spine of humanness.

When erasure be religion,
mutiny becomes a right,
grab the settler by the collar,
earth is our birthright.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Now go burn white maps and syllabus,
now go break your trance of west,
scrub the whitewash, face the history,
grow the spine of humanness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Pack your kings that loot the world,
and pack your churches stood on bones,
stole the land then sold the skies,
manufactured famine, fortune poured.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Better White Guilt than White Privilege
(Sonnet 3222-3223)

If you are white, be extremely cautious,
self-conscious, and absolutely apologetic,
while commenting on people's religion and
culture, and it does not matter whatsoever
whether you're a fundamentalist or rationalist;

because that's exactly how your ancestors
destroyed populations after populations,
not only in the name of god,
but also in the name of rationality.

So whenever you feel the elitist urge
to dismiss other people's culture,
look at your skin first,
if it turns red in the sun,
it's nature's way of telling you to shut up,
you're in no ethical position
to pass judgement on morality and reason.

Do not even open your mouth until
you're properly scrubbed and decolonized -
if you wanna call it white guilt, call it white guilt,
better white guilt than white privilege.

In fact, if you feel guilty for the actions
of your animal ancestors, it's proof that
your bloodline has finally become human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Whenever you feel the elitist urge to dismiss other people's culture, look at your skin first, if it turns red in the sun, it's nature's way of telling you to shut up, you're in no ethical position to pass judgement on morality and reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Do not even open your mouth until you're properly scrubbed and decolonized - if you wanna call it white guilt, call it white guilt, better white guilt than white privilege.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer