"My negritude is not a stone nor deafness flung out against the clamor of the day my negritude is not a white speck of dead water on the dead eye of the earth my negritude is neither tower nor cathedral it plunges into the red flesh of the soil it plunges into the blazing flesh of the sky my negritude riddles with holes the dense affliction of its worthy patience."
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Aimé Césaire, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939), Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
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