"I would rediscover the secret of great communications……" — Aime Cesaire
"I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger."
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Aime Cesaire
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15 Quotes by Aime Cesaire
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Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
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I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic…
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Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me.…
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There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.
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Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of…
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And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the…
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Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words…
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