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Aimé Césaire

“And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of despair… And above all my body as well as my soul, beware of folding your arms in the sterile attitude of spectator, for life is not a spectacle, for a sea of pain is not a proscenium.”

Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
tags: negritude
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Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series) Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé Césaire
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