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.
Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze. - Aime Cesaire
Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.
- Aime Cesaire
A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle. - Aime Cesaire
A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, ma… - Aime Cesaire
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, ma…
Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments, strip me as a man st… - Aime Cesaire
Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments, strip me as a man st…
And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors. - Aime Cesaire
And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.
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 t… - Aime Cesaire
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 t…
It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint. - Aime Cesaire
It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
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… - Aime Cesaire
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…
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 l… - Aime Cesaire
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 l…
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