Aimé Césaire: Dancing

Aimé Césaire was Martiniquais politician. Explore interesting quotes on dancing.

Aimé Césaire: 20 quotes4 likes

“Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.”

Source: Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

“A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.”

Source: Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

“Beware of assuming the sterile attitude of a spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of miseries is not a proscenium, a man screaming is not a dancing bear.”

Source: Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (1939), p. 13