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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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Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it…
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The bad jazz that a cat blows wails long after he’s cut out.
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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the…
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So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.
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Don't pressure yourself to target a market. Hit the mark instead. Pay homage to your own connection. Quantity flocks to quality and…
— Tama J. Kieves
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So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far…
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It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is…
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I don't want water!" Sarah cries, her face buried against my chest. I can't see what's going on in the rest of…
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hi, puppy." she's not a puppy. She's a girl," Nancy's mother says. Nancy pats me and says, "Good puppy. Nice puppy." When…
— Lauren Myracle
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But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one…
— J M Coetzee
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And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.
— Mircea Eliade
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