Erasure Quotes

“When I was on unemployment I was not ashamed of being a social outcast. Just furious. It’s the same thing for being a woman: I am not remotely ashamed of not being a hot sexy number but I am livid that—as a girl who doesn’t attract men—I am constantly made to feel as if I shouldn’t even be around.”
― Virginie Despentes

“Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled,
made nothing?
Are you willing to be made nothing?
dipped into oblivion?

If not, you will never really change.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Last Poems of D. H. Lawrence

“In the meantime, a massive and frightening bleakness inside me kept expanding and rattling. Sometimes I wrote about it in my diary, sensing that if I didn’t somehow fill the hollowness, it would swallow my heart and spit out my core. Other times I wished for the emptiness to scrape me off, a permanent erasure.
I was terrified that I was supposed to be living and I wasn’t, that I must have some prospect and I didn’t.”
― Ava Homa, Daughters of Smoke and Fire

“She wasn’t a protagonist. She wasn’t even a side character. She was a filler. A backdrop with blood and breath and no arc.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, The NPC Versus The Universe: A Metafictional Dystopian Thriller About Rigged Lives, Luck Privilege, and the NPC Who Starts Killing the Protagonists

“The universe had no voice. Only script. But June had a voice. Cracked. Small. Raw. But hers.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, The NPC Versus The Universe: A Metafictional Dystopian Thriller About Rigged Lives, Luck Privilege, and the NPC Who Starts Killing the Protagonists

“Some people were written in ink. They could not be erased. But I was pencil. And now, I’m the one holding the eraser.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, The NPC Versus The Universe: A Metafictional Dystopian Thriller About Rigged Lives, Luck Privilege, and the NPC Who Starts Killing the Protagonists

“Luck is what decides whose name gets written in gold, and whose page is torn out before it begins.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, The NPC Versus The Universe: A Metafictional Dystopian Thriller About Rigged Lives, Luck Privilege, and the NPC Who Starts Killing the Protagonists

“The story didn’t want to kill her. It wanted to write her in. To tame her. To turn her rebellion into a lesson.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, The NPC Versus The Universe: A Metafictional Dystopian Thriller About Rigged Lives, Luck Privilege, and the NPC Who Starts Killing the Protagonists

“Somewhere very far from here, a blank page waits again. But this time, it’s not for a protagonist. It’s for the NPCs.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, The NPC Versus The Universe: A Metafictional Dystopian Thriller About Rigged Lives, Luck Privilege, and the NPC Who Starts Killing the Protagonists

“The vatican, british empire, and uncle sam, these three are the apex predator of planet earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The Unholy Trinity (Naskaristana 2533)

History of the world written by colonizers
is no different from map of the world
made by flat earthers -

just like flat earthers flatten the globe
to fit their delusion, colonizers flatten
civilizations into savages,
philosophies into myths,
cosmologies into coincidences,
lived holiness into paganism,

erasure into expansion,
trafficking into trade,
native resistance into terrorism,
and colonial terrorism into civilizing.

The vatican, british empire, and uncle sam,
these three are the apex predator of planet earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“History of the world written by colonizers is no different from map of the world made by flat earthers - just like flat earthers flatten the globe to fit their delusion, colonizers flatten civilizations into savages, philosophies into myths, cosmologies into coincidences, lived holiness into paganism, erasure into expansion, trafficking into trade, native resistance into terrorism, and colonial terrorism into civilizing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Vatican, british empire, and uncle sam, the unholy trinity of planet earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Letter to The Braindead (Naskaristana 2532)

The only reason the west makes such
a song and dance about antisemitism,
is not because it's a human rights issue,
but because it's the only narrative where
the colonizers emerge as the good guys -

but place indigenous populations
at the center of history, and every last
white heroic propaganda collapses in dust.

Think about it for a while, if you're not braindead -
how come french resistance, polish resistance, all
belong to history's mainstream fight against tyranny,
yet you still stutter to call the pilgrims as parasites,
british monarchy as brutes, and the vatican as vultures!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The only reason the west makes such a song and dance about antisemitism, is not because it's a human rights issue, but because it's the only narrative where the colonizers emerge as the good guys - but place indigenous populations at the center of history, and every last white heroic propaganda collapses in dust.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“How come french resistance, polish resistance, all belong to history's mainstream fight against tyranny, yet you still stutter to call the pilgrims as parasites, british monarchy as brutes, and the vatican as vultures!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Everything that white people have ever written consists of only 1 percent of the human condition, yet you confuse it as the entire human condition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Silence did not mean safety. It only meant no one was listening.”
― Kimberly K. Taylor

“Only Backward Minority of Earth
(Naskaristana 2543)

Eurocentrism is the biggest fraud in education,
eurocentrism is the antithesis of education.

The only minority that has historically caused
irreparable damage to the world are the white people,
yet you confuse every little mediocre literature
from such backward population as default knowledge -
and by act of conscience if a braveheart white defies
the status quo, you declare them as woke infected.

First sign of an educated mind -
you don't start a conversation
on philosophy mentioning greeks,
you don't start a conversation
on poetry mentioning the english.

White people discovered nothing but other people's land,
other people's science, other people's philosophy -
Europe is the real footnote in the history of knowledge,
till you understand what this means in your bones,
your philosophy is just as fictional as your theology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The only minority that has historically caused irreparable damage to the world are the white people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Why You Must Speak Your Name
(Naskaristana 2593)

You know why I have to mention my name
over and over, in as many places as I can,
even though the name is not important -
it's because my name represents every people
ever trampled beneath the feet by the
half-educated apes out to spread "civilization" -

my name represents the congolese,
my name represents the palestinians,
my name represents the sikhs,
my name represents the muslims,
my name represents each and every human being
incarcerated for merely existing.

So I say again, the name is not important,
yet you must speak your name,
because every time a human speaks their name,
an ape loses their footing in history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The name is not important, yet you must speak your name, because every time a human speaks their name, an ape loses their footing in history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The greatest story ever told is the story never told, the story of countless cultures wiped out of record, just so one cartel could have complete autonomy over the discourse of morality, culture and holiness, all the while being the scourge upon everything moral, cultured and sacred.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Earthright Anthem (Sonnet 2613-2615)

The soil is older than every border,
older than flags and state decree.
Earth is property of no brute empire,
nor promised prize of manifest atrocity.

No badge can baptize brutality,
no holy water can bleach blood stains -
the land remembers the salt of tears
of every people ever slain.

Women are indigenous to their bodies,
Palestinians are native to their home.
Privilege cannot buy righteousness,
nor can blind faith redraw chromosome.

When erasure becomes ape religion,
mutiny becomes human right.
Stars that burn for others,
wither in body, but live in light.

From Palestine to Kashmir to America,
every land shall be humanized,
not by bullets and atom bombs,
but by atomic people against the lies.

Acts of terror by governments
are still terror all the same,
genocide wrapped in diplomacy
is just murder by another name.

Divide and rule, marks the animal,
unite and integrate, makes humankind.
We are stardust come alive -
unbent, unflinching, borderless mind.

Human is the bridge, and bridge is the truth.
Nobody is undocumented, on a planet built on loot.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Sometimes the extract is not an erasure,
But an expansion.
It is not a cut, but a culmination.
Not a gash, but a growth.”
― Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

“When erasure becomes ape religion, mutiny becomes human right.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Decolonization Anthem -
Song of The Global South
(Sonnet 2616-2619)

Humanity is mightier than empires of apes,
life is braver than borders of the dead.
No one's undocumented on a planet built on loot,
champions of freedom are champions of truth.

We are children of the Global South,
not a lost cause or subjects of pity,
not tax breaks in a donor's ledger,
nor footnotes in whitewashed history.

Our lands are rich with brains,
our soil is rich with minerals,
our veins pulse with creation,
hearts bright with civilization.

They looted our gold,
then sold us "aid" -
they burnt our libraries,
then sold us "education."

Colonizers were the real cannibals of history,
out to civilize humans with far advanced society -
suffering of the South was not bad luck or destiny,
just the grand design of Manifest Atrocity.

Rise, O Peoples of Earth -
Rise till the looters fall.
Roar like Sonnets of Naskar -
Fire the fascists, free the world!

In every culture we carry the cosmos,
in every tongue we carry our home.
Our names are not doormats of empire,
our dust is larger than Greece and Rome.

Own your color, your accent,
own your stories, your theologies,
be proud of your sweat, your stubborn dignity -
for the North wrote itself as civilized,
but we, the Global South, authored humanity.

They told us, history is white,
holiness is western, progress is european -
but the hands that built the world,
with science, medicine, poetry,
philosophy, astronomy and mathematics,
were black, brown and indigenous.

Stand and burn the colonial syllabus,
disown the doctrines built on erasure -
rise and write like blood on fire -
write your anthem, write your future.

Rise, O Children of Earth,
no matter the color or culture,
you have more heart than ape empires,
more soul than parasites and vultures!

Burn the cartels, fire the fascists -
I lived my duty, now you be the Naskar.
Let the cosmos stand witness,
to the spark of human nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“While popular conduct books might airily dismiss women's words as unworthy of male attention, here they had set the whole court aflame and even caused a man's death.”
― Nicola Clark, The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens

“Geopolitics 101: don't take democracy lessons from the West.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“The first betrayal of any people is the erasure of their story.”
― Lawrence Nault