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

“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

“Eurocentrism is the biggest fraud in education, eurocentrism is the antithesis of education.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“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. Europe is the real footnote in the history of knowledge.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“White people discovered nothing but other people's land, other people's science, other people's philosophy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“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