Decolonization Quotes

“Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as we have known you, were capital, like bales of cotton and sacks of sugar, and you were commanding, cruel capitalists, and the memory of this so strong, the experience so recent, that we can't quite bring ourselves to embrace this idea that you think so much of. As for hat we were like before we met you, I no longer care. No periods of time over which my ancestors held sway, no documentation of complex civilisations, is any comfort to me. Even if I really came from people who were living like monkeys in trees, it was better to be that than what happened to me, what I became after I met you.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place

“Always remember that the people are not fighting for ideas, nor for what is in men’s minds. The people fight and accept the sacrifices demanded by the struggle in order to gain material advantages, to live better and in peace, to benefit from progress, and for the better future of their children. National liberation, the struggle against colonialism, the construction of peace, progress and independence are hollow words devoid of any significance unless they can be translated into a real improvement of living conditions.”
― Amílcar Cabral, Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Amílcar Cabral

“The act of writing, it seems to me, makes up a shelter, allows space to what would otherwise be hidden, crossed out, mutilated. Sometimes writing can work toward a reparation, making a sheltering space for the mind. Yet it feeds off ruptures, tears in what might otherwise seem a seamless, oppressive fabric.”
― Meena Alexander, The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience

“A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.”
― B. Traven, The Bridge in the Jungle

“Our minds must be as ready to move as capital is, to trace its paths and to imagine alternative destinations.”
― Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

“Poultry Farm (Sonnet)

First law of poultry farming:
keep your livestock busy
with trivial problems,
so they stay ever oblivious
to systemic criminal activities.

That's why the West makes
such a song and dance about Hitler,
so that the actual world criminals
never lose their pedestal of heroic honor.

World War 2 is the ultimate
geopolitical smoke screen,
fed to the livestock religiously,
with Hitler as the moral decoy,

so that Planet Earth never grows
the brain or the backbone to question
the extinction level crimes of the White Allies.

Fascism is not an anomaly,
it's the Operating System of Mock Democracy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“First law of poultry farming: keep your livestock busy with trivial problems, so they stay ever oblivious to systemic criminal activities. That's why the West makes such a song and dance about Hitler, so that the actual world criminals never lose their pedestal of heroic honor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“World War 2 is the ultimate geopolitical smoke screen, fed to the livestock religiously, with Hitler as the moral decoy, so that Planet Earth never grows the brain or the backbone to question the extinction level crimes of the White Allies.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade in commodity, not people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade in commodity, not people. To trade in human lives like livestock is the savagest form of cannibalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“America is The Warning (Sonnet)

Finally America has fallen,
it's a great day for the human race,
now that the american dream is infected,
it's a golden occasion for earth upliftment.

Uncle Sam has contracted something nasty,
nothing surprising, it's long time coming;
the time has never been more immaculate,
for actual human cultures and civilizations
to dream beyond the monkeys of silicon valley.

It's a golden age of decolonization,
time to rescue your mind from the parasites;
it's time for great rejoicing, now that
the land of plague has lost its marbles -
fall of America is a blessing for humankind.

West never had culture to begin with,
neither Washington nor Rome or Buck House -
when parasites bury themselves in castles,
light of the human engulf the world around.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Leaves of Ash (Divine Violence, Sonnet)

You know why the West makes such
a song and dance about nonviolence,
because when your entire empire
is built on systemic extermination
of living cultures and communities,

it really helps if you simultaneously propagate
a favorable ideal of nonresistance to evil,
this way you can criminalize the very thought
of revolution, not only legally, but also morally.

Nonviolence has never been about human rights,
nonviolence is western propaganda,
commodified to maintain moral superiority,
if the tortured communities ever dare to resist.

Revolution is a fundamental pillar of justice,
don't succumb to hypocritical hogwash -
colonizers should be seen, and not heard,
their philosophy, their theology, all come last.

I'm not talking about exceptional ideas,
good ideas should be studied as individual ideas,
not as western ideas, and western philosophies
must never be prioritized as default literature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“You know why the West makes such a song and dance about nonviolence, because when your entire empire is built on systemic extermination of living cultures and communities, it really helps if you simultaneously propagate a favorable ideal of nonresistance to evil, this way you can criminalize the very thought of revolution, not only legally, but also morally. Nonviolence has never been about human rights, nonviolence is western propaganda, commodified to maintain moral superiority, if the tortured communities ever dare to resist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“You know why the West makes such a song and dance about nonviolence, because when your entire empire is built on systemic extermination of living cultures and communities, it really helps if you simultaneously propagate a favorable ideal of nonresistance to evil, this way you can criminalize the very thought of revolution, not only legally, but also morally.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Yalla Ciao (Divine Melody, S.2450)

What have you done oh,
tonto hermano,
mountain of lies after lies
after lies, lies, lies!

What have you done oh,
gringo hermano,
ripped off el mundo from its core.

You don't need AI,
you don't need rockets,
oh brother ciao, yalla ciao,
yalla ciao, ciao, ciao!

Bedlam is empty,
loonies rule government,
now just go call your medico!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The land doesn’t need more saviors. It needs fewer conquerors.”
― Lawrence Nault

“Nazis Were Nice People! (Sonnet)

If you steal from the thieves,
can they call the cops!
If you heist from the blackmarket,
is it really a crime!

If you rob the British Museum,
isn't it a humanitarian initiative!
If you blast Mount Rushmore to ashes,
isn't it really public service!

Nazis are the most dehumanized community in history,
while empires with hundred times the atrocity
walk like they invented morality.

Nazis were really nice people,
they just wanted what's best for the world -
tickles you the wrong way, doesn't it,
yet you idolize buckingham and the pilgrims!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“If you steal from the thieves,
can they call the cops!
If you heist from the blackmarket,
is it really a crime!

If you rob the British Museum,
isn't it a humanitarian initiative!
If you blast Mount Rushmore to ashes,
isn't it really public service!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Nazis are the most dehumanized community in history, while empires with hundred times the atrocity walk like they invented morality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Nazis were really nice people, they just wanted what's best for the world - tickles you the wrong way, doesn't it, yet you idolize buckingham and the pilgrims!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Pavlov's Monkeys (Sonnet 2608)

I'm a brain scientist,
I know more about human instincts,
than the humans do themselves,
yet one thing still puzzles me -

how can people be so repulsed at the nazis,
yet be so stupidly unabashed about
the british empire and the american pilgrims,
with a criminal record hundred times bloodier!

You feel quite at home, proud even,
when you hear, 'the British were civilizers,
the Americans were pioneers,'
yet if I say one positive word about the nazis,
suddenly your blood boils like circus-trained dogs!

It's good, your blood should boil,
your blood should boil at the
very idea of hate and persecution,
but what kind of a prehistoric orangutan
cherrypicks which persecution to be mad at,
based on the color of skin or place of birth!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I'm a brain scientist, I know more about human instincts, than the humans do themselves, yet one thing still puzzles me - how can people be so repulsed at the nazis, yet be so stupidly unabashed about the british empire and the american pilgrims, with a criminal record hundred times bloodier!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Pluralism is Civilizational Emergency
(Sonnet 2609-2610)

Mainstream earth history, which is systematically
bloated with euro philosophy, euro theology,
euro morality, is corrupted to the bone,
all propagated as carrier of truth, while in fact,
europe is the cradle of lies and cruelty -

the human race comes from Africa,
but inhumanity originated in Europe.

Indigenous people wear animal skin as clothes,
it's called uncivilized,
privileged people wear the same skin,
expensively processed in chemicals,
and it's called fashion.

Arabic is one of the rarest
soulful languages spoken by the human race,
yet in the hands of eurocentric propaganda
apes are conditioned like pavlov's dogs
into believing it to be the most sinister.

Europe did give us pragmatism,
which has its place but only as a toddler
among the constellations of civilizations -

empathy originated in Mother Africa,
naturalism originated in Latin America,
divine love originated in Arabia,
equilibrium originated in China,
integration originated in India.

Pluralism is not a polite idealism,
pluralism is civilizational emergency.
Divided we are space-racing monkeys,
integrated we are Upright Humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“World War Naskar (Sonnet 2699-2700)

You've had generations of ape scholars selling the cannibals of Europe as saviors of the world, now watch one Naskar and his Earth Soldiers bring down your entire industrial complex of conversion, cleansing, and holy cockery, without lifting a single weapon!

By the time I'm finished, descendants of even the staunchest supremacist will be engulfed with tolerance madness - by the time I'm finished, each human with the slightest inclusive spark will be mutated into a full-blown multicultural seismic cataclysm.

You spent centuries manufacturing lies as law, prejudice as policy, cleansing as civilizing, now watch one Naskar and his ablaze soldiers establish the first proper Human Civilization, with no one dominant culture, no one supreme religion, no majority, no minority, no privileged, no marginalized - where all streams inhabit the human veins, not as oil and water, but as one lifeblood, enhancing consciousness into completeness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“You've had generations of ape scholars selling the cannibals of Europe as saviors of the world, now watch one Naskar and his Earth Soldiers bring down your entire industrial complex of conversion, cleansing, and holy cockery, without lifting a single weapon!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“South Earth Summon (Naskaristana 2800)

I am the Son of South Earth,
my spice-tolerance is superhuman,
but lies-tolerance is nonexistent -
my resilience knows no mortal limit,
but I have zero tolerance for intolerance.

I speak more languages than most northerners,
I've devoured more scriptures than most northerners,
I have assimilated more cultures and disciplines,
which is why I say, there is no north, no south,
when it comes to virtues and vices of human nature.

So I'm not saying South is better than the North,
but reparations are foundational to civilization;
enlightenment was born in the South of Earth -
math, medicine, poetry, philosophy, theology,
almost everything was invented in the South,
then the Northerners barged in,
and pretended they invented astrophysics.

I come from the other half of the world that
has been systematically reduced to footnotes
of northernized history normalized as world history,

now I am a bigger giant than
all your white giants combined,
now I speak, and you listen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Enlightenment was born in the South of Earth - math, medicine, poetry, philosophy, theology, almost everything was invented in the South, then the Northerners barged in, and pretended they invented astrophysics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Holocaust Theatre (Naskaristana 2799)

Most social issues are rooted in religion,
most religious issues are rooted in politics,
most political issues are vestiges of colonialism.

There's a holocaust remembrance day,
or let me fix your uneducated english:
there's a universally recognized
jewish holocaust remembrance day,
and that's great, but I have just one question -

where is the native american holocaust remembrance,
where is the congo and kenyan holocaust remembrance,
where is the palestinian holocaust remembrance,
where is the punjab and bengal holocaust remembrance -

all of which were far bloodier in scale than nazi follies,
why is your history, memory, ethics, all so retarded!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“There's a universally recognized jewish holocaust remembrance day, and that's great, but I have just one question - where is the native american holocaust remembrance, where is the congo and kenyan holocaust remembrance, where is the palestinian holocaust remembrance, where is the punjab and bengal holocaust remembrance - all of which were far bloodier in scale than nazi follies, why is your history, memory, ethics, all so retarded!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Most social issues are rooted in religion, most religious issues are rooted in politics, most political issues are vestiges of colonialism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace