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Quotes from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land — Aimé Césaire

1913–2008 France

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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)

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)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aimé Césaire (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.