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“Lives to Serve Before I Sleep (The Sonnet) Lives to serve before I sleep, Service is my salvation. Wounds to heal before I sleep, Selfless joy brings illumination. There are times people need help, there are times they need motivation. Keep your mouth absolutely shut, if you cannot make the distinction. Bridges to build before I sleep, Walls are too savage a burden. Tears to wipe before I sleep, In human smile lies human heaven. Chains to hack before I sleep, Chains hack humanity to pieces. Peace to plant before I sleep, Come join me, let's grow a forest!”

“One day all walls of religion, nation and culture will vanish and all that will remain is a simple sense of universal humanity. In that time and age, human actions will be guided by observation and compassion and not by imagination and insecurity.”

“An American Prayer (Divine Comedy, Sonnet) The other day I was having a chat with God, she was telling me about the prayers flooding in from America, all claiming extreme religiousness: let our wall stand bold and tall, fighting off all indigenous impurities, let us paint it pitch black, so it's too hot to be climbed by the savages; now let us deport every last trace of sense, let us deport all who defy our holy faith - let us ban all blacks, whites, muslims alike, whoever talks the nonsense of tolerance. Then the Holy Mother sighed in despair, and said, "and to think they are doing all that in my name!" So I paused for a moment, then I grinned - why not grant their wishes, then flood the entire Eden!”

“I don't write on multiculturalism, I am multiculturalism, I'm the living specimen of a multicultural human from the future. Today I may be the anomaly, but tomorrow people like me will be the norm, and cultural exclusivity will be a deranged fringe practice, like witchcraft is today.”

“We need a civilized patriotism, one that is devoid of all sectarianism and cultural supremacy. We gotta be patriotic towards humanity, not nationality - we gotta be patriotic for justice and equality, not supremacy - we gotta be patriotic for inclusion, not the exclusive sustenance of our own dignity at the expense of the dignity of others.”

“All Roads Lead to People (Sonnet) What the world needs is character, character civilized enough to prioritize benevolence over borders, awake enough to tell right from wrong, and not kowtow to cannibal ancestors, alive enough to value first the welfare of the living over the last wishes of the dead, human enough to identify as human, beyond the gaslighting spell of prejudiced fairytales. What burns the bigots most is an unbending flame of inclusion, what the world needs is character, radiant with loving assimilation. All roads spring from people, and they lead back to the people. Whenever we deviate from each other, we are bound to end back in the jungle.”

“If immigrants ain't real Americans, Neither is our revered Lady Liberty. She too came from a distant land, Yet today she is the American epitome... Though I belong to the whole wide world, Land of Lady Liberty is my home country. A nation's character isn't defined by rigidity, It is defined by a hearty unity in diversity.”

“Enter a hall with high ceiling, and you feel small, in a room with low ceiling you feel like a giant. The height of human doesn't depend on numbers, we judge our height relative to the world around. Bigots hate an inclusive world not because it is unorthodox, but because it reminds them, how puny they are - how small.”

“Integration 101: I don't exist, that's my law of integration. Had I not told you my name, it'd be impossible for you to know my culture and nation. Any ape can boast about its culture, I'll die roaring for all but my own. I am local of a borderblind world, something illegible to the cavegrown. Borders are glorified apartheid, Passports are glorified bus pass. No peace can ever come to light, from the doings of apartheid heart.”