C Quotes
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“Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.”
“Colonialism spread rapidly, with relatively little force from the colonial powers and also with relatively few Westerners in the colonies. That is a sign that the colonial regimes enjoyed legitimacy in the eyes of the indigenous population. See also the large numbers of locals who worked for tax offices, police, and the administration.”
“Colonialism was a mass extinction event, yet no textbook has the spine to bear the burden.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Colonialism was a mass extinction event, yet no textbook has the spine to bear the burden. You demonize hitler for his measly 6m white body count! Americas were radiant with life, love and wonder, then columbus happened, and population dropped 90%, bengal had the world's finest silk industry, then churchill happened, and industry collapsed, 4 million starved to death, millions massacred across india, like australia, like leopold-infestation in congo. Everywhere the white man has laid his eyes on, plague, famine and massacre has followed.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?”
Source: Earthly Powers
“Colonialists stole not only the lands of African people and renamed them. They stole also their knowledge, so that they would know nothing about themselves”
“Colonials Go Home!
(Forest Fascist Reserve, Sonnet)
Colonials go home, not to England
or Europe, but straight to the jungle!
Only place wild animals are beautiful,
is in the dog-eat-dog spaces of the wild.
Don't worry, once in a while we'll visit,
like we visit any of your fellow animals.
If anything, visiting you will inspire us
further, to never deviate from integration.
Nevertheless, there is still another way,
you don't need to be deported back to the jungle.
If there is even a smidgen of humanity in you,
now is the time to bring it out, and get help.
Otherwise, we can easily trace your family tree,
back to the time your family lived in it.
Once we do, all nine billion of us will chip in,
and hire a couple of cargo planes to deport
all you bigots to a forest fascist reserve.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Colonials go home, not to England or Europe, but straight to the jungle!”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.”
“Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.”
“Colonists of, ah, Per Ardua, meet your autonomous colonisation unit!”
Source: Proxima
“Colonists were grateful for the perceived blessing of massive depopulation of indigenous people by infectious disease. A 1643 publication titled New England First Fruits conveys that message clearly, numbering smallpox first among a long list of divine gifts. In their minds, God cleared a path for their progress, and the chosen implement was contagion.”
Source: Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
“Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.”
Source: Old Man's War
“Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.”
“Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the country. It's part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never have free black and white people living together.”
“Colonized painting, for instance, is balanced between poles. From excessive submission to Europe resulting in depersonalization, it passes to such a violent return to self that it is obnoxious and esthetically illusory. The right balance not being found, the self-accusation continues. Before and during the revolt, the colonized always considers the colonizer as a model or as an antithesis. He continues to struggle against him. He was torn between what he was and what he wanted to be, and now he is making of himself. Nonetheless, the painful discord with himself continues.
In order to witness the colonized's complete cure, his alienation must completely cease. We must await the complete disappearance of colonization--including the period of revolt.”
Source: The Colonizer and the Colonized
“Colonizer of A Different Kind
(The Sonnet)
Only the shape of colonialism
has changed, not the nature.
Tendencies are just as filthy,
rightful heir to animal disaster.
I too am a colonizer,
but of a different kind.
I colonize no home by force,
with words I colonize minds.
Humanitarianism is civilized colonialism -
simpler still, humanitarianism is civilization.
That's the contagion my literature carries,
through my proses and sonnetic revelation.
First thousand were an accident,
Second thousand, a promise.
Answer to traditional animosity,
Antidote to doting prejudice.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Colonizers are the second class citizens, every land first belongs to the indigenous.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Colonizers are the second class citizens,
every land first belongs to the indigenous.
Landback is the mother of all movements,
it contains the plight of all First Humans.
Women are indigenous to their own body,
Palestinians are indigenous to palestine;
uncultured crowns and criminal uncles
have no jurisdiction over our Earthright.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Colonizers were the real cannibals of history, out to civilize humans with far advanced society – suffering of the Global South was not bad luck or destiny, just the grand design of Manifest Atrocity.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Colonizers write about flowers.
I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks
seconds before becoming daisies.
I want to be like those poets who care about the moon.
Palestinians don’t see the moon from jail cells and prisons.
It’s so beautiful, the moon.
They’re so beautiful, the flowers.
I pick flowers for my dead father when I’m sad.
He watches Al Jazeera all day.
I wish Jessica would stop texting me Happy Ramadan.
I know I’m American because when I walk into a room something dies.
Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound.
When I die, I promise to haunt you forever.
One day, I’ll write about the flowers like we own them.”
“Coloquem no primeiro plano dos seus objetivos
na Terra a conquista maior que é a luz espiritual, ante a qual tudo o mais é secundário.”
Source: ELUCIDÁRIO - Obra Ditada Pelo Espírito de Paulo de Tarso
“Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.”
“Color and I are one. I am a painter.”
“Color can do anything that black-and-white can.”
“Color cannot stand alone.”
Source: Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912
“Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.”
“Color deceives continuously.”
“Color details the story. Black and White make it a myth. September 7, 2015.”
“Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
Source: Concerning the spiritual in art
“Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.”
“Color does not matter. Culture matters, right or wrong what place do you dwell in?”
“Color does to me what the touch of the earth did to the giant Antaeus - sends new life, vitality, courage, initiative surging through me. Sometime the scientists will discover that color is a renewer of life.”
“Color doesn't define character, conduct does.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Color doesn't define character, culture doesn't define character, creed doesn't define character, only conduct does.”
“Color don't tell if people Black. It's the soul.”
“Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.”
“Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful in spite of the scar, she's somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with her buzzed hair, like Tobias with the memories of his father's cruelty that he wears like armor, like my mother in her plain gray clothing.”
“Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.”
“Color harmony was thrown out years ago, as restrictive chains were broken forming my free style.”
“Color has always evoked emotion for me: visually, internally, emotionally.”
“Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.”
“Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits of the light, it nestles in and penetrates all physical forms.”
“Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.”
“Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.”
“Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout.”
“Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.”
“Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.”
“Color is a language, like music.”
“Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.”