Indigenous People Quotes

“Saying you're the 'first person' to do anything in an indigenous country is insulting.”
― Gayle Kabloona

“Show respect to the land and the people who have kept it pristine for your adventures.”
― Gayle Kabloona

“Earth Belongs to The Natives (Sonnet 2401)

We cannot abolish systemic persecution
without dismantling systemic privilege.
You cannot wipe the slate clean, but you can
take the responsibility and stand to heal.

Colonizers are the second class citizens,
every land first belongs to the indigenous.
Landback is the mother of all movements,
it contains the plight of all First Humans.

Women are indigenous to their own body,
Palestinians are indigenous to palestine;
uncultured crowns and criminal uncles
have no jurisdiction over our Earthright.

Earth belongs to the Natives, settlers are
welcome, but as participant, not head of state.
Somos indígenas, somos indomables -
you can make us houseless, but never homeless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Earth belongs to the Natives, settlers are welcome, but as participant, not head of state. Somos indígenas, somos indomables - you can make us houseless, but never homeless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The experience that Mr. Smith had is a cultural and spiritual experience, that turned out very badly, but, it’s a cultural experience, not a mental illness. He is no more mentally ill than any other belief system that we have that is criticized at times as irrational as well. (quoting Angela Greene, Public Defender)”
― James Dommek Jr., Midnight Son

“With the help of Creator, our grandfather sun and grandmother moon agreed to work together with our mother, the earth, to create life. Then other beings of Creation were placed on the earth and in the sky. We, humans, Anishnaabe, were the last to be placed here. This is why we refer to ourselves as the younger brothers and sisters to the rest of beings in Creation.”
― Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

“Maybe they should build a fence around these standing stones,” I suggested.

“Our people don't like fences. We think they might just make someone curious and want to jump over it.”
― Monica Tan, Stranger Country

“Like race, indigeneity is a socially constructed category rather than one based on the notion of immutable biological characteristics. Moreover, global political movements tending to the legacy of colonial dispossession have shaped how scholars comprehend (and apprehend) the Indigenous as a subject of study (and indigeneity as an analytic).”
― J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism

“Only Indigenous people are real Canadians, Kiwis,
and Aussies, everybody else is an immigrant.
Before you yell slurs at an immigrant of today,
Start by heading back to Europe yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“If you are not indigenous, you are an immigrant.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Pearls are perfection provided by nature. They are the only gems that do not require enhancing by man.”
― Peter Von Perle

“The concept of an imported epidemic laying wast to vulnerable native inhabitants works just as well applied to the British, and other colonial nations, as it does to fungal spores.”
― Nicholas P. Money, The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History

“The danger is going back with this colonial attitude and disseminating information like the Inuit don't have history there.”
― Gayle Kabloona

“Earth belongs to the Natives.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Earth belongs to the Natives, settlers are welcome, but as participant, not head of state.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Somos indígenas, somos indomables - you can make us houseless, but never homeless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Landback is the mother of all movements, it contains the plight of all First Humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Colonizers are the second class citizens, every land first belongs to the indigenous.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“In Colonial English they say: not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslim. In Naskarian English we say: not all white people are animal, but 99% of historic predators, terrorists, traffickers, thieves, morons and imbeciles were white.

United States has a 9/11 Memorial, Germany has a Holocaust Memorial, but if you endeavor to commemorate the earth victims of White Terrorism, you'll run out of walls before you run out of names.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“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

“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 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

“In a world run by the indigenous, no ethnicity is the second race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“We live in a world built on colonial atrocity, where exploitation is advancement and genocide is genesis.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Whiteys on The Moon
(Naskar's Version, 2749-2750)

There is no orient,
there is no occident,
there is only consciousness -

there is no global south,
there is no global north,
there is only human race.

And now that we've established
the ultimate human truth of the future,
let's talk some facts of the present -

we cannot establish a theoretical future,
no matter how profound or spiritual it sounds,
without first actively making amends for the past -

we cannot say we're all equal,
when clearly the crimesheet of the north
is a hundred times bloodier than the south,

when the bloodlust of the occident
makes oriental villains look like pickpockets -

you can put a hundred whiteys on the moon,
still it won't make up for the countless holocausts
you withheld from the history books,
while cleverly cherrypicking one little cleansing
that photoshops the colonial numbskulls
as the saviors of the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“We cannot say we're all equal, when clearly the crimesheet of the north is a hundred times bloodier than the south, when the bloodlust of the occident makes oriental villains look like pickpockets - you can put a hundred whiteys on the moon, still it won't make up for the countless holocausts you withheld from the history books, while cleverly cherrypicking one little cleansing that photoshops the colonial numbskulls as the saviors of the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace