Eurocentric Quotes

“Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind”
― Meshell NdegeOcello

“Maps of the world are whitewashed,
history of the world is whitewashed,
ethics of the world are whitewashed,
knowledge of the world is whitewashed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I was missing lectures leading up to an essay test, so I went downstairs & got my textbook & pretended to study, with Animal Planet playing in the background. Everyone we learned about was either white or some sort of predecessor of the white, Christian world--as if the Stone Age, Bronze Age & Iron Age were just Greek & Roman stepping stones. As if everyone outside of Europe was still grunting & digging for grubs. As if China, centuries before Jesus started squalling in his crib, hadn't already kicked Europe's ass in technology & art.”
― L. Tam Holland, The Counterfeit Family Tree of Vee Crawford-Wong

“No other "civilized" people have done more damage to the world than the Europeans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Educating the Educators (Sonnet 2281)

Greeks did not invent philosophy,
philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa,
Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier,

not as some elitist discipline, but as everyday way of life,
later the europeans contributed their puny drop in the ocean,
but of course, the myth of europe as the origin of philosophy
goes deceptively well with the whitewashed history of earth.

Maps of the world are whitewashed,
history of the world is whitewashed,
ethics of the world are whitewashed,
knowledge of the world is whitewashed.

No wisdom is flawless 'n absolute, ancient or modern,
but the point is, enlightenment and civilization
did not originate in europe, they were born of
the lands colonially categorized as uncivilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as some elitist discipline, but as everyday way of life, later the europeans contributed their puny drop in the ocean, but of course, the myth of europe as the origin of philosophy goes deceptively well with the whitewashed history of earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Enlightenment and civilization did not originate in europe, they were born of the lands colonially categorized as uncivilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“White men are the apex predator of earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Sanitizing Textbooks (Sonnet 2317)

Abolish all white teachers from schools
and universities across the world,
and replace them with noncaucasians,
and the human race will be decolonized
and properly civilized within a hundred years -

but then again, that would be just as inhuman,
ethnic cleansing doesn't cure ethnic cleansing,
so we have to go for the only humane alternative,
and sanitize every last textbook of all whitewashing.

Give up the filthy habit of associating philosophy
with the greeks, and poetry with the english -
education that doesn't reflect plural humanity,
raises only goodlooking jungle rubbish.

We need special instruments to see
the full spectrum of electromagnetic waves,
but to feel the full spectrum of humanity
a heart freed from supremacy is sufficient.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Not Christ, but church doctrine was a major downgrade in theology existing hundreds and thousands of years prior, at the same time, european reductionism was a major downgrade in a wholesome life-centric understanding of truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Lack of inclusivity in society is not a bug, it's a feature of western eurocentric education.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Separatism is the hallmark of eurocentric thought, whether it's separation between the mortal and divine, or the separation between reason and theology, or between science and philosophy, or prose and poetry. Every single aspect of human consciousness touched by eurocentrism ends up divided and desecrated, losing its health-giving wholeness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The human race comes from Africa, but inhumanity originated in Europe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock