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Aime Cesaire

b: Basse-Pointe, Martinique, Jun 26, 1913

d: Fort-de-France, Martinique, Apr 17, 2008

Aimé Fernand David Césaire was an African-Martinican francophone poet, author and politician. He was "one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature".

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Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions.

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 of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

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 the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders.