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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 of all chill abstractions.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children’s words and love words, out of love for the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders.

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.

I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

There’s room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties – it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

In fact, you could say that I became a poet by renouncing poetry.

Discourse on Colonialism Quotes Poetry Quotes

It is not a dead society that we want to revive. We leave that to those who go in for exoticism.

Discourse on Colonialism Quotes

Le fait est que la civilisation dite "européenne", la civilisation "occidentale", telle que l'ont façonnée deux siècles de régime bourgeois, est incapable de résoudre les deux problèmes majeurs auxquels son existence a donné naissance : le problème du prolétariat et le problème colonial ; que, déférée à la barre de la "raison" comme à la barre de la "conscience", cette Europe-là est impuissante à se justifier ; et que, de plus en plus, elle se réfugie dans une hypocrisie d'autant plus odieuse qu'elle a de moins en moins de chance de tromper.

Discourse on Colonialism Quotes

Ce qu'il ne pardonne pas à Hitler, ce n'est pas le crime en soi, le crime contre l'homme, ce n'est pas l'humiliation de l'homme en soi, c'est le crime contre l'homme blanc, c'est l'humiliation de l'homme blanc, et d'avoir appliqué à l'Europe des procédés colonialistes dont ne relevaient jusqu'ici que les Arabes d'Algérie, les coolies de l'Inde et les nègres d'Afrique.

Discourse on Colonialism Quotes

Où veux-je en venir ? A cette idée : que nul ne colonise innocemment, que nul non plus ne colonise impunément ; qu'une nation qui colonise, qu'une civilisation qui justifie la colonisation - donc la force - est une civilisation malade, une civilisation moralement atteinte, qui, irrésistiblement, de conséquence à conséquence, de reniement en reniement, appelle son Hitler, je veux dire son châtiment.

Discourse on Colonialism Quotes

La colonisation, je le répète, déshumanise l'homme même le plus civilisé ; que l'action coloniale, l'entreprise coloniale, la conquête coloniale, fondée sur le mépris de l'homme indigène et justifiée par ce mépris, tend inévitablement à modifier celui qui l'entreprend ; que le colonisateur, qui, pour se donner bonne conscience, s'habitue à voir dans l'autre la bête, s'entraîne à le traiter en bête, tend objectivement à se transformer lui-même en bête.

Discourse on Colonialism Quotes

Beware of crossing your arms in the sterile attitude of the spectator, because life is not a spectacle, because a a sea of sorrows is not a proscenium, because a man who screams is not a dancing bear.

Humanity Quotes / Race and racism in america Quotes

Partir. Mon coeur bruissait de générosités emphatiques. Partir... j'arriverais lisse et jeune dans ce pays mien et je dirais à ce pays dont le limon entre dans la composition de ma chair : «J'ai longtemps erré et je reviens vers la hideur désertées de vos plaies ». Je viendrais à ce pays mien et je lui dirais : « Embrassez-moi sans crainte... Et si je ne sais que parler, c'est pour vous que je parlerais ». Et je lui dirai encore : « Ma bouche sera la bouche des malheurs qui n'ont point de bouche, ma voix, la liberté de celles qui s'affaissent au cachot du désespoir. »Et venant je me dirais à moi même :« Et surtout mon corps aussi bien que mon âme, gardez-vous de vous croiser les bras en l'attitude stérile du spectateur, car la vie n'est pas un spectacle, car une mer de douleurs n'est pas un proscenium, car un homme qui crie n'est pas un ours qui danse... »

. . . nous savoir ce coeur lourd . . .

Lors donc que Rome, dans cette prétendue marche triomphale vers la civilisation unique, eut détruit, l'une après l'autre, Carthage, l'Egypte, la Grèce, la Judée, la Perse, la Dacie, les Gaules, il arriva qu'elle avait dévoré elle-même les digues qui la protégeaient contre l'océan humain sous lequel elle devait périr.

Je parle de millions d'hommes à qui on a inculqué savamment la peur, le complexe d'infériorité, le tremblement, l'agenouillement, le désespoir, le larbinisme.

Alas! There's no one in hell ... all the devils are here!

Evil Quotes / Hell Quotes

Even then Communists would reproach me for speaking of the Negro problem—they called it my racism. But I would answer: Marx is alright, but we need to complete Marx. I felt that the emancipation of the Negro consisted of more than just a political emancipation.

Discourse on Colonialism Quotes

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.

Négritude Quotes Notebook of a Return to the Native Land Quotes

There are people, even today, who thought and still think that it is all simply a matter of the left taking power in France, that with a change in the economic conditions the black question will disappear. I think that the economic question is important, but it is not the only thing.

measured by the clock click of the serpent-minutethe explosionafter which it is proper to appreciate thatthe brutal fist of the terrorist crack of dawn has justplanted at the top of the most forgotten pouiits adornment of fire its dolmen of blood its flag of rage and renewal

Négritude Quotes

your facelike a village asleep at the bottom of a lakewhich is reborn to daylight from the grass and from the yeargerminates

Négritude Quotes

like the scorpion's question markdrawn in the pollen on the canvas of the sky and of our brains at midnight

Négritude Quotes

Je viendrais à ce pays mien et je lui dirais : "Embrassez-moi sans crainte... Et si je ne sais que parler, c'est pour vous que je parlerai".

Prospero, you are the master of illusion.Lying is your trademark.And you have lied so much to me(Lied about the world, lied about me)That you have ended by imposing on meAn image of myself.Underdeveloped, you brand me, inferior,That s the way you have forced me to see myselfI detest that image! What’s more, it’s a lie!But now I know you, you old cancer,And I know myself as well.

A Tempest Quotes Caliban Quotes Play Quotes Postcolonial Quotes Shakespeare Quotes The tempest Quotes

the thick stream of air hauled toward the summitsfirst the great horses of noise reared against the skythen sluggishly the great limp octopus of smokea derisory spitter injecting the night withthe insolent perfume of a citronella lamp and a wind swept down on the islandsto be riddled by the suspect violence of the locusts . . .

Black surrealism Quotes Négritude Quotes Surrealism Quotes

A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.

...et surtout mon corps aussi bien que mon âme, gardez-vous de vous croiser les bras en l'attitude stérile du spectateur, car la vie n'est pas un spectacle, car une mer de douleurs n'est pas un proscenium, car un homme qui crie n'est pas un ours qui danse.

Cahier Quotes Discours sur le colonialisme: Aimé Césaire Quotes

There are a whole lot of thingswhose names I do not knowand I’d like to tell you about themin the sky your hair solemnly draws awaykinds of rain one no longer seesnuts Saint Elmo’s firesun lames whispered nightscathedrals toowhich are the carcassesof large gnawed horsesspat by the sea from far awaybut still worshiped by peoplea whole lot of forgotten thingsa whole lot of dreamed things

Lost Body Quotes

the forest remembers that the last word can only bethe flaming cry of the bird of ruins in the bowl of the storm

Négritude Quotes

Il y a encore une mer à traverseroh encore une mer à traverserpour que j'invente mes poumonspour que le prince se taisepour que la reine me baiseencore un vieillard à assassinerun fou à délivrerpour que mon âme luise aboie luiseaboie aboie aboieet que hulule la chouette mon bel ange curieux.

Et ce ne sont pas seulement les bouches qui chantent, mais les mains, mais les pieds, mais les fesses, mais les sexes, et la créature tout entière qui se liquéfie en sons, voix et rythme.

Écoutez le monde blanchorriblement las de son effort immenseses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles duresses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystiqueécoute ses victoires proditoires trompeter ses défaitesécoute aux alibis grandioses son piètre trébuchementPitié pour nos vainquers omniscients et naïfs !

Afro caribbean Quotes Cahier d'un retour au pays natal Quotes Négritude Quotes Poetry Quotes

Do not make me into that man of hatred for whom I feel only hatred.

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land Quotes

Whether one likes it or not, the bourgeoisie, as a class, is condemned to take responsibility for all the barbarism of history, the tortures of the Middle Ages and the Inquisition, warmongering and the appeal to the raison d’Etat, racism and slavery, in short everything against which it protested in unforgettable terms at the time when, as the attacking class, it was the incarnation of human progress.

Discourse on Colonialism Quotes

In light of recent events—genocide in East Africa, the collapse of democracy throughout the continent, the isolation of Cuba, the overthrow of progressive movements throughout the so-called third world—some might argue that the moment of truth has already passed, that Césaire and Fanon’s predictions proved false. We’re facing an era where fools are calling for a renewal of colonialism, where descriptions of violence and instability draw on the very colonial language of “barbarism” and “backwardness” that Césaire critiques in these pages. But this is all a mystification; the fact is, while colonialism in its formal sense might have been dismantled, the colonial state has not. Many of the problems of democracy are products of the old colonial state whose primary difference is the presence of black faces. It has to do with the rise of a new ruling class—the class Fanon warned us about—who are content with mimicking the colonial masters,

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Liberté mon seul pirate.

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. . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre de l'homme vient seulement de commencer et il reste à l'homme à conquérir toute interdiction immobilisée aux coins de sa ferveur et aucune race ne possède le monopole de la beauté, de l'intelligence, de la force . . .

Afro caribbean Quotes Cahier d'un retour au pays natal Quotes Négritude Quotes Poetry Quotes

ma chère penchons sur les filons géologiques (my dear let us lean on geographical veins)

Colonialism Quotes Martinique Quotes Poetry Quotes

Haiti où la négritude se mit debout pour la première fois et dit qu'elle croyait à son humanité.

Haiti Quotes

Je viendrais à ce pays mien et je lui dirais: "Embrassez-moi sans crainte... Et si je ne sais que parler, c'est pour vous que je parlerai

What am I driving at? At this idea: that no one colonizes innocently, that no one colonizes with impunity either; that a nation which colonizes, that a civilization which justifies colonization—and therefore force—is already a sick civilization, a civilization which is morally diseased, which irresistibly, progressing from one consequence to another, one denial to another, calls for its Hitler, I mean its punishment.

Discourse on Colonialism Quotes

Ma bouche sera la bouche des malheurs qui n'ont point de bouche, ma voix, la liberté de celles qui s'affaissent au cachot du désespoir.

I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.

Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the steps taken by Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century that without his being aware of it, he has a Hitler inside him, that Hitler inhabits him, that Hitler is his demon, that if he rails against him, he is being inconsistent and that, at bottom, what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the blacks of Africa.

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