“No matter what, I am not giving up - I am not giving up on this world. Because among all the planets across 2 trillion galaxies in our universe, this apparently insignificant little blue dot is my home - it's my family. And I shall keep fighting, unarmed and unbending, for the rights of my family, for the peace and uplift of my family, so long as the four valves on my left keep working. Fighting is a good thing, if the reason is righteous. And there is no greater reason, no greater cause, to keep fighting, than for the welfare of our family. That is why, I am not giving up - no matter what, I am not giving up. I am not giving up on the welfare of my family - I am not giving up on my humankind.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“My world, my family.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“Let no ancestor bind your identity behind borders, let no heritage be a hindrance to your humanity. If a language or culture makes you squeamish or afraid, it means you gotta wash your heart with soap and sanity.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“The universal reason is love,
The universal faith is love.
All else is but a faint echo,
Driving us away from love.
Taking the echo for the source,
the living heart turns bitter stone.
The sky above knows no east and west,
only the bugs beneath insist on separation.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“The sky above knows no east and west, only the bugs beneath insist on separation.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Born by the Ganges,
Reborn by Bosphorus.
The name is Human,
Reformador of Earth.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Nothing is Everything (The Sonnet)
Your accent doesn't matter,
Your language doesn't matter.
Your scripture doesn't matter,
Your nationality doesn't matter.
Beyond the prisons of all divisions,
There is a valley of total nothingness.
In that nothingness you shall find light,
In nothingness lies absolute wholeness.
So long as you are exclusively something,
You can never be everywhere and everything.
Once you are everywhere and everything,
You have no need for the backward things.
For once in our life, let's be whole in nothing.
Once we taste nothingness, there is no turning.”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“Whitewashed World (The Sonnet)
I once sent my sonnets for an official recognition,
They rejected me saying, I lack skill and significance.
It's a white people's world after all, like it or not,
We wouldn't want the little white poets to take offence!
My skin doesn't radiate the glory of talcum powder,
So I'm supposed to be thankful for the white hand-me-downs.
Mine is not to seek recognition in a whitewashed world,
Mine is to keep on struggling with my vigor's last ounce.
In a world where top white export is but oppression,
Everything is ten times less difficult if you are white.
A mermaid of color tickles the conquerors the wrong way,
White people's Nobel disproportionately goes to the whites.
Whether you recognize me or not, I neither care nor mind.
The reason I write this, so humankind becomes human and kind.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“Integration is the cure for terrorism.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“Stagnation & Expansion (The Cognitive Sonnet)
There is not one but two imaginations,
One causes stagnation, another expansion.
It's okay to have a little bit of stagnation,
But stagnation as life causes degeneration.
A stagnant mind raises cognitive defenses,
To guard the stagnation against radical ideas.
An expansive mind brings down their defenses,
To expand perception by embracing new ideas.
Stagnant minds revolting against new ideas,
Are like impressionable kids throwing tantrum.
It's not their fault that they despise expansion,
Ascension takes a huge toll on minds in stagnation.
So when stagnant souls laugh at your expansion.
It is sign that you're moving in the right direction.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence