“I hope that you can finish reading this book with the feeling of having a little more understanding about yourself or someone else in your life. I hope that you have more compassion for yourself, and that you allow yourself to make mistakes. Remember: Mistakes are how you grow. And as you make a mess of them, like I have, you’ll realize, like I have, that many things you thought were mistakes weren’t mistakes at all. And you’ll be free from any chains, any judgments, any misunderstandings that people may have placed on you or that you’ve placed on yourself.
Your life is in your hands. That’s what I’ve learned. I’m no longer trapping myself in a very small cage.
I feel free.”
Source: Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself
“Languages come easy to me,
Cultures come easy to me,
Scriptures come easy to me,
Science comes easy to me.
You know why? Because there is no me,
only the mission of undivided humanity.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“There has been wider acceptance of different body types, skin tones and racial backgrounds, but the acknowledgment that you need to broaden customer appeal to sell something is not synonymous with genuine respect.”
Source: Token Black Girl
“It's a great tragedy,
when love becomes sacrilege,
and hate is deemed sacred.
Love thy neighbor comes
with ethnic criteria,
while welfare comes with a price tag.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Human is born, not when the water breaks,
Human is born, when the bias breaks.
Person grows, not when the body grows,
But when the mind outgrows fear and prejudices.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Ask not, is there life after death!
Ask instead, is there life in existence divided!”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“So far, heritage has only caused a mess. You know why? Because it is never about just heritage - all talk of heritage inadvertently leads us to the savage dilemma of "our heritage versus their heritage". And such dilemma might have been acceptable in a savage society, but it is totally and utterly out of place in a civilized world.
So, either the very construct of heritage evolves, or becomes an impediment to the expansion, hence the welfare, of the world as well as the self.
That is why I say - just because you are born and raised in a particular culture, it doesn't mean, you are supposed to stay chained to that culture all your life, with blinkers on your eyes, that keep you ignorant of the beauty beyond the horizon.
Let me put this into perspective with an unambiguous example.
Some of you have asked me, what's my relation to Turkey? Well, everybody loves Rumi, but I learnt his tongue, so I could pick up where he left off.
Some of you have asked me, what's my relation to Latin America? Well, everybody loves to yell "viva la libertad", but I learnt el idioma, so I could revolutionize the very paradigm of revolution.
Every corner of earth has some distinct strongholds, and I am the force that brings them together to create a strong, sapient, and undivided planet.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Traditional public relations, internal communications, and executive communications exist to reinforce the status quo…. [T]hat means force-fitting messaging, restricting what people know to control what we want them to feel, and limiting what they do. Becoming conscious communicators by applying a DEI lens to our work means expanding the topics, options, and actions our audience can experience — making room.”
Source: The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t
“DEI Sonnet
I call it curiosity,
You call it science.
I call it integrity,
You call it defiance.
I call it contemplation,
You call it philosophy.
I call it accountability,
You call it sociology.
I call it correction,
You call it revolution.
I call it existence,
You call it inclusion.
All I see is humans
finally living a human life.
You with your brainy fancy
philosophize it as DEI.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“The best use of language is to surpass the language.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat