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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