Marginalized Quotes

“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.”
― Danielle Bernock, Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals

“In a "man's world," women may feel unidentified as "default humans" but as a marginalized species, frequently misunderstood, often ignored. Instead of surviving in a man's world, they must reshape it, empower their individuality, claim and reframe their narrative, and engage in collective action. ("Terra Incognita - The lady is a tramp")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“During COVID, we've all been kept out of things. Gorman's poem eloquently lists many of the things we've been kept out of. Then she wrote -

"Kept out of,
kept in,
kept from,
kept behind,
kept below,
kept down.
Kept without life.

Some were asked to walk a fraction of our exclusion for a year and it almost destroyed all they thought they were.

Yet here we are. Still Walking. Still kept.

To be kept to the edges of existence is the inheritance of the marginalized.”
― Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

“The Easiest Way to Fuck Everything Up Is to Ignore Black Women”
― Zoe Quinn, Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

“No doubt about it, society was small. Most human beings existed on the outer fringes of society. In the seventeenth century, for example, at least twenty percent of the merchandise on every slave ship died. By that I mean the dark-skinned people who were being transported for sale, to Virginia, say. And that didn't get anyone upset or make headlines in the Virginia papers or make anyone go out and call for the ship captain to be hanged. But if a plantation owner went crazy and killed his neighbor and then went galloping back home, dismounted, and promptly killed his wife, two deaths in total, Virginia society spent the next six months in fear, and the legend of the murderer on horseback might linger for generations.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Non-being, i.e., distance from society—social distance—is the very heritage of the oppressed. Which means to the oppressor, social distance is a humiliation. It is to be something less than free, or worse, someone less-than-white.

For what does the Karen carry but her dwindling power, dying & desperate? Dangerous & dangling like a gun hung from a tongue?”
― Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

“White American Christians can begin to look to and learn from the expressions of Christianity among the marginalized throughout history to find a new way forward, one that does not rely on violence in order to protect power over others and assuage the fear of losing what we consider ours.”
― Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

“When The Woman is King (Sonnet)

When the woman is king,
no mother goes without leave,
no dreamer goes without choice,
no queer goes without dignity.

In a world run by women,
no gender is second gender -
in a world run by the indigenous,
no ethnicity is the second race.

Before the human race becomes equal,
first the dehumanized must reign supreme -
when the woman is king, that's the
last time the world will ever need a king.

When the woman is king, not queen, not princess,
but the absolute monarch of the kingdom of apes,
that's the beginning of actual human evolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“The country will be created and run by thinkers and intelligents it can"t be run by a group of tribal and narrowed minds, when the thinker marginalized the nation will remain under the control of occupiers forever.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Era por eso que, aunque Daisy se mofara de las historias de terror que contaban sobre norois, sabía que tenía que salir de casa. Allí, oculta entre lobos y fresnos, podía ser quien era sin miedo a ser demonizada por ello; un privilegio que solo unos pocos tenían. Y ella odiaba a los putos privilegiados.”
― Inés Platero Gracia, Noroi

“No world is civilized till no one is marginal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Black, white, brown or muslim,
or any qaum* of the human world,
no society is civilized society,
till no *community is marginal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“As a writer, a previously incarcerated person, and an activist, I acutely feel the weight of this carceral nation’s systems and structures on my own ability to feel and experience any degree of pleasure, especially when faced with the day-to-day dangers of being a person with marginalized identities. It is radical for me to care for myself as a whole and complex being in this country, which actively legislates against my right to do so.”
― Faylita Hicks

“If you must wave, wave the flag of those
who are stripped of their life and dignity.
Wave the rainbow, wave the watermelon -
lift up those thrown in manufactured obscurity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“It’s not a free country, it’s a free jungle, where predators roam free abusing the marginalized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I don't beg for equality, I establish equality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I never play the victim card, because to play the victim one would have to feel inferior somehow - which I don't - I am not inferior to anyone, quite the contrary, I am one of the most spectacular specimens of whole human that ever walked the earth - which is why, whenever I face derogatory remarks, my immediate response is not that of an offended minority, but that of a concerned parent disappointed at their child's misdemeanor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I don't plea, I execute (Sonnet 2212)

I never play the victim card,
because to play the victim one would
have to feel inferior somehow - which I don't -
I am not inferior to anyone, quite the contrary,

I am one of the most spectacular specimens
of whole human that ever walked the earth -
which is why, whenever I face derogatory remarks,
my immediate response is not that of an offended
minority, but that of a concerned parent
disappointed at their child's misdemeanor.

I don't beg for equality, I establish equality.
I don't plea for mercy, I execute justice.
Millennia yet for courts to catch up to my truth;
I don't outsource, I am the source of holiness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I don't plea, I execute.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Educating White People (Sonnet 2272)

The average colored person is ten times
smarter, wiser, braver, and stronger,
than most white people, not because
we are genetically superior,

but because, when an entire planet
is rigged in favor of white colonials
over the black, the brown, the latino,
arab, indian, chinese, turk, and what not,
we have to be exceptional to survive.

White people can be mediocre,
and still respected, glorified even,
but rest of us have to be Ramanujans,
Rumis, Naskars, just to be regarded as human.

Most of the world's geniuses are non-whites,
not because it's genetic, but because, like
white people inherit blonde hair and blue eyes,
or daddy's emeralds, we inherit generational
persecution, and any brain forced to endure
persecution as daily chore, becomes a powerhouse
of apparently supernatural mental faculties.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Most of the world's geniuses are non-whites, not because it's genetic, but because, like white people inherit blonde hair and blue eyes, or daddy's emeralds, we inherit generational persecution, and any brain forced to endure persecution as daily chore, becomes a powerhouse of apparently supernatural mental faculties.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“When Whiteness Collapses (Sonnet)

When the whites benefit from privilege,
it's part and parcel of colonial heritage,
but when a giant rises from the marginals,
it eclipses the shallow heights of whiteness.

I'm colored, I'm scientist,
I'm poet, I'm polyglot -
coming from zero money,
I won the world with words.

Try and get your puny white brains
around this existence enigma -
compile your white canons of a century,
and they turn bleak next to just one year
of multicultural, multidisciplinary Naskar.

I never grovelled to be included,
I let my vastness out,
and the world queues for my grace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“No society is advanced till no one is marginal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Before the human race becomes equal, first the dehumanized must reign supreme.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Be the last refuge for those refused. In you lies solution, in you lies the truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“When the Human speaks, mountains wake,
tired hearts of earth unbreak -
turn the world from ash to flame,
help the broken speak their name.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“When the Human walks, the soil revives, forgotten streets all come to life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“When the Heart speaks, the Earth rewrites, buried stories are restored with rights.”
― 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