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

“White people must be seen, not heard (Sonnet 2913)

In matters of human rights,
white people must be seen, not heard;

In matters of ethics and morality,
white people must be seen, not heard;

In matters of reason and righteousness,
white people must be seen, not heard;

In matters of philosophy and theology,
white people must be seen, not heard;

unless you've proven beyond the shadow of
a doubt, with every ounce of your existence,
that you value humanity more than you
value your faith, your intellect, your philosophy,
and every aspect of your whitewashed identikit.

White is not a color, white is a mindset,
and every person infected by that mindset
is a potential threat to the human race,
as such they must be crowdfunded with
immediate psychiatric treatment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“White is not a color, white is a mindset, and every person infected by that mindset is a potential threat to the human race, as such they must be crowdfunded with immediate psychiatric treatment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“When the colored speak white (Sonnet 2942)

White delusion doesn't affect only white people,
it also affects colored people,
then they start making noises like white people -

they look at noneuropean science like white people,
they look at noneuropean philosophy like white people,
they look at noneuropean theology like white people,
they look at noneuropean humanity like white people -

which is, aloof from the window of an ivory castle,
and there is nothing uglier than a colored mouth
with a white colonial voice -

white people with white delusion are backward, but
colored people with white delusion are downright grotesque,
which is why, 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 -

all the while plagiarizing from the global south,
because, history of the west is history of plagiarism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“White delusion doesn't affect only white people, it also affects colored people, then they start making noises like white people - and there is nothing uglier than a colored mouth with a white colonial voice - white is not a color, white is a mentality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“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