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Aime Cesaire has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.
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In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.
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When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been…
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I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all…
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It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
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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 creations destroyed,…
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Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip 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 the coldest…
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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 wisdom of…
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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 and love…
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My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off…
— Antonio Machado
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Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let…
— David Steindl-Rast
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Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there…
— Rajneesh
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The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in…
— Frances Densmore
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Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
— Aime Cesaire
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The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports,…
— Michel de Certeau
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A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,
— Bernie Krause
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Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever…
— Rumi
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There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
— Adyashanti
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Souls of prayer are souls of great silence
— Mother Teresa
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What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and…
— Alexey Leonov
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