Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) Martiniquais politician
Source: Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (1939), p. 13
“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
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