Aime Cesaire Quotes on Freedom
Aime Cesaire was a Martinican poet, playwright, and philosopher and a co-founder of the Negritude movement. This page collects quotes attributed to Aime Cesaire on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
-
Attributed to Aime Cesaire:
“Colonization equals thingification.”
-
Attributed to Aime Cesaire:
“Negritude is the simple recognition of the fact that one is black, the acceptance of this fact and of our destiny as blacks, of our history and our culture.”
-
Attributed to Aime Cesaire:
“It is a new society that we must create, with the help of all our brother slaves, a society rich with all the productive power of modern times, warm with all the fraternity of olden days.”
-
“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.”
p. 13