Aimé Césaire Quotes
1913–2008 France
Aimé Césaire (26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a Francophone and French poet, author and politician from Martinique.
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Also known as: Aime Cesaire
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My mouth shall be the mouth of those calamities that have no mouth, my voice the freedom of those who break down in the prison holes of despair.
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (1939)
Weakness always has a thousand means and cowardice is all that keeps us from listing them.
Une Tempête (1969)
Every time you summon me it reminds me of a basic fact, the fact that you've stolen everything from me, even my identity!
Une Tempête (1969)
Beware of assuming the sterile attitude of a spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of miseries is not a proscenium, a man screaming is not a dancing bear.
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (1939)
They tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, ... they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples.
It is not the head of a civilization that begins to rot first. It is the heart.
Discourse on Colonialism (1955)
The details supplied by Khrushchev on Stalin’s methods ... lead us to believe in the existence in these countries of a veritable state capitalism, exploiting the working class in a manner not very different from the way the working class is used in capitalist countries.
With the exception of Yugoslavia, in numerous European countries—in the name of socialism—usurping bureaucracies that are cut off from the people (bureaucracies from which it is now proven that nothing can be expected) have achieved the pitiable wonder of transforming into a nightmare what humanity has for so long cherished as a dream: socialism.